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Investigation into Bandon Bus Crash Continues
Monday, February 8, 2010
An investigation by Oregon State Police into an early morning Bandon School District bus crash was continuing Saturday morning.
The early Saturday morning crash involved a Bandon School District school bus transporting members and coaches of the high school girl's junior varsity basketball team. The bus driver was transported with non-life threatening injuries to Bay Area Hospital. None of the approximately 14 girls or two coaches was transported for treatment.
The first call was received by Coos County 9-1-1 of a traffic crash involving the school bus on Highway 101 near milepost 255 north of Bandon at 12:21 a.m. Saturday morning. OSP was dispatched and arrived at 12:50 a.m. Bandon police and fire departments were already on scene.
The school bus, driven by Sandra K. Klein, 60, of Bandon, was returning from Rogue River High School following evening basketball games. As the bus was southbound Klein lost control negotiating a curve at the bottom of a hill.
The bus traveled off the roadway onto the southbound shoulder and went up an embankment knocking down a highway sign. It then re-entered the road and traveled back across both lanes and crashed into the highway guardrail on the northbound shoulder. It came to rest on top of the crushed guardrail.
Klein was not using safety restraints and was thrown from the driver's seat. She was transported by ambulance to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay with minor injuries.
Other possible minor injuries were reported but none of the students or two coaches went to a hospital from the scene. Some family members came to the scene and took their students back to Bandon. Others returned on a second bus that was dispatched to the scene by school district officials.
