Mar 25, 2022

Students safe after car strikes school bus in SW Kan.

Posted Mar 25, 2022 7:01 PM

FINNEY COUNTY — Six students and the driver of a school bus were uninjured after an accident in Finney County Thursday morning.

Just after 8 a.m., the Kansas Highway Patrol reported a school bus was stopped in the 2500 block of Maple — southwest of Garden City — with its stop sign out and flashers on, preparing to pick up a pedestrian.

The KHP reproted the bus was struck from the rear by a 2019 Chrysler 300 driven by Brittany Marie Garcia, 32, Garden City. Garcia was transported to St. Catherine's Hospital for treated of a suspected minor injury. An 8-year passenger in her vehicle also was transported for treatment of a suspected minor injury.

Neither the bus driver, his six passengers nor the pedestrian were injured.