A 64-year-old woman was injured about 7:30 a.m. today when a school bus pulled into her path at the intersection of Weld County Road 32 and Weld County Road 7, the Weld County Sheriff’s Department said.
The woman, a resident of Mead, was transported to a hospital in Longmont with non-life threatening injuries, according to Margie Martinez, spokeswoman for the Weld County Sheriff’s Department.
Martinez said that the bus, from the St. Vrain School District RE1-J School District, had been stopped at the stop sign westbound on County Road 32.
Martinez said the bus, with 19 students on board, pulled away from the stop sign into the path of the woman’s 1996 Toyota Corolla which was southbound on County Road 7.
Initial indications are that the bus driver may have been at fault because the woman, who did not have a stop sign on County Road 7, had the right of way, said Martinez.
Martinez said the 19 students were checked by paramedics and determined to have suffered no injuries.
The woman, whose car broadsided the bus, had to be cut out of her car by the Mountain View Fire Department.
Mountain View spokesman Jesse Hodgson said it took firefighters about 20 minutes to cut the woman out of the car. He said the air bags in the Toyota deployed and the woman suffered a minor head injury.
Her car, which struck the middle of the school bus, sustained moderate damage, added Hodgson.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
