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Bus-car wreck injures four on U.S. 50
CENTERVIEW, Feb 05, 2012 (The Daily Star-Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
In the moments before the accident, Kelsey Sivils, 11, sat on her seat in the school bus about 3:25 p.m. Friday.
"I was talking to people around me on the bus," Kelsey said Saturday.
In the next moment, the yellow school bus carrying 28 Crest Ridge pupils collided with a black, 1993 Acura Legend.
"I didn't really think it was that bad at first, but after everybody got up, and we were in the ditch, I realized it was kind of bad," Kelsey said. "Some of the kids in the front were crying and the ones in the back seat, the older ones ... were making sure they were OK."
The older students helping the younger ones says something good about Crest Ridge School students, Kelsey said.
"That they're nice and like to help out," she said.
In a hard rain, bus driver Ronald D. Scarbrough, 65, Centerview, drove north on
U.S. 50 and began turning onto Northwest 251st Road. The bus "pulled into the path" of the Legend driven by Brandon Clark, 19, Raymore, Highway Patrol Trooper J.T. Langsdale reported.
The collision resulted in minor injuries to two bus passengers, Brenna Schmidli, 12, and Kelsey, both of Centerview. Clark and his passenger, Jordan A. Smith, 20, Peculiar, suffered moderate injuries.
Ambulances took Clark and Smith to Centerpoint Medical Center, Independence; Schmidli went to Western Missouri Medical Center, Warrensburg; and the Sivils family decided to seek treatment on their own for Kelsey, Langsdale reported.
The 2001 Freight bus took minor front damage, but the patrol listed the car, crushed on the driver side, as totaled.
Kelsey said emergency responders arrived quickly.
"Everybody wanted to help out, which was pretty nice," she said.
Kelsey described getting help.
"First they asked who got hurt and ... put us in one of the (sheriff's) vehicles to where we were out of the rain and we were warm, and then the paramedics and people came over and talked with us," Kelsey said.
After being moved into an ambulance, Kelsey said, she talked with paramedics. They wanted to make sure she felt all right, she said.
Being thrust forward and backward during the accident hurt her neck, Kelsey said. But her mother, Lorna Sivils, said Kelsey appeared fine.
"She was a little sore this morning, but doing good," she said.
The school worked quickly to notify parents about the accident, Lorna said.
"We were all pretty well informed and had phone calls throughout the whole thing," she said. "It was first a text message and then I got a phone call."
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