SUV runs off road after clipping school bus, police say

This sport utility vehicle clipped a school bus Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, and then ran off Arkansas 161 at Upper Steele Bend Road in Scott, authorities said.
This sport utility vehicle clipped a school bus Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, and then ran off Arkansas 161 at Upper Steele Bend Road in Scott, authorities said.

A driver was taken to the hospital Friday after her sport utility vehicle clipped a Pulaski County Special School District bus and then ran off a central Arkansas road, police on the scene said.

It happened about 7 a.m. on Arkansas 161 at Upper Steele Bend Road in Scott.

Deputies on scene said it appeared one of the vehicles clipped the other a they drove opposite ways on Arkansas 161. That sent the SUV, a Ford Explorer, off the highway, across a ditch and through a fence line.

No children were on the bus, and the driver wasn't hurt. The Explorer driver was taken to the hospital by ambulance with injuries not believed to be serious.

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