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Three students hurt when school bus overturns
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Published: September 29, 2008
BOONE — Three students were injured this morning when their school bus overturned on Hardin Road, about 7 ½ miles east of Boone, authorities said.
Karen Lisa Dallas, 36, of Deep Gap was driving the school bus with six students when encountered an oncoming car at 7:13, said Trooper Gene Johnson of the N.C. Highway Patrol. That section of Hardin Road is a narrow dirt road.
Dallas pulled the bus over far as possible to allow the car to pass, Johnson said. The road's shoulder gave way under bus's weight and the bus overturned once and came to rest next to a tree — 40 feet off the road.
The bus, which did not strike the car, was taking the students to Parkway Elementary School in Boone.
Three of the six students were injured, but all six students and the driver were taken to Watauga Regional Hospital as a precaution, Johnson said. The injured students had cuts and bruises.
Johnson declined to release the students' names because some of their parents had not been notified. The students' ages range from 8 to 14.
No charges have been filed.
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