Rice Woman Hurt in Car Versus Bus Crash
MELROSE -- A Rice woman was hurt in a car versus school bus crash in Stearns County.
The incident happened on Interstate 94 near Melrose just after 3:00 p.m. on Friday.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a school bus was going east on Interstate 94 near the Highway 4 exit. It merged from the right lane to the left lane and sideswiped a car that was also going east in the left lane. The car lost control and rolled into the median.
The driver of the car, 22-year-old Kathryn Kubat of Rice, was taken to Sauk Centre Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The bus driver, 61-year-old Chrystel Lange of Alberta, and the 12 passengers were not hurt.