Four Tate Students Receive Minor Injuries When School Bus Rear-Ended

February 5, 2013

Four Tate High School students were injured when their school bus was rear-ended by a SUV driver this morning.

The accident occurred about 8 a.m. on Guidy Lane. The Florida Highway Patrol said the school bus, driven by 50-year old Therese Bridget Drexler of Pensacola, was traveling north on Guidy Lane when it stopped to pick up passengers.

The driver of a Ford Expedition, 32-year old Michael Wayne Jernigan, failed to stop his Ford Expedition and rear-ended the bus as it began to pull foward, the FHP said. He was cited with failure to use due care and failure to display a driver’s license.

Of the 32 passengers on the school bus, four were transported with minor injuries to Sacred Heart and Baptist hospitals.

Comments

7 Responses to “Four Tate Students Receive Minor Injuries When School Bus Rear-Ended”

  1. Jordan... on March 20th, 2013 10:18 pm

    Funny… I was sitting in the very first seat, right behind Mrs. Therese…

    Everyone on the bus, with the exception of the people who were carried off by ambulance, had minor back pains… O.o
    All of us were supposed to get some sort of check, or something. I got a letter from progressive, and never called to recieve my reward…
    >.<

  2. Nicole on February 24th, 2013 5:17 pm

    I was one of the kids on the bus i was also one of the ones got taken to the hospital my hips are messed up and i have bad dreams how do you miss a STOPPED school bus i just don’t get it my friend was also hurt that set next to me i was in the last seat on the bus were he hit its sad but I’m recovering mentally and physically no 15 should go through this

  3. Kalli on February 6th, 2013 4:46 pm

    At new century… I thought that comment was hilarious myself…sad its true tho… I thought bright yellow was sufficient but I guess not…

  4. New to Century on February 6th, 2013 7:10 am

    Yesterday I thought the idea of changing the color of the buses to bright pink or neon green was funny, but today folks are proving this might be a necessary action. I am old and my attention span is not what it used to be but I HAVE NEVER MISSED A SCHOOL BUS!

  5. worried on February 5th, 2013 5:24 pm

    WOW!! Another one bites the dust (I mean the bus). I know deer just appear but a bus really?

  6. Sylvia on February 5th, 2013 4:44 pm

    Kalli, I surely agree with you! This is ridiculous.

  7. Kalli on February 5th, 2013 2:40 pm

    Really people!? Someone hit another bus? Wow… I really cant believe this… 2 days in a row… people need to pay attention.!! (n b glad I dont have kids school bus age ye
    t…) this is just ridiculous. If ya cant see a bright yellow bus a with flashing lights…you probably shouldn’t be driving period

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