A school bus in northeast Arkansas received a scratch during what district officials described as a “minor altercation” Wednesday morning.
Westside Consolidated School District Superintendent Scott Gauntt said he was notified of the collision, which happened on Craighead County Road 118, at about 7:20 a.m. As the bus topped a hill, the vehicle encountered a woman driving in the opposite direction who drifted across the centerline, Gauntt said.
The bus driver pulled the vehicle out of the way to avoid a collision, but the bus received a roughly two-foot vertical scratch on the driver’s side, officials said.
"There was very minimal damage," Gauntt said.
According to the superintendent, the bus carried roughly 40 kindergarten through 12th-grade students who were headed to their second day of classes. One child went home with a parent, but officials said nobody was injured when the scratch happened.
In a Facebook post about the incident, Gauntt wrote “Please know that our students’ safety is paramount to everything we do.”