Two hurt in bus, log truck crash

According to Spokane media, two students suffered minor injuries when a log truck crashed into a Riverside High School bus.

The accident happened about 3 p.m. Friday near the high school on Deer Park Milan Road in Chattaroy, Wash. Chattaroy is about 25 minutes south of Newport.

KREM-TV reported on its website that two students suffered minor injuries in the crash and that the cause of the accident is under investigatio according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney.

The TV station was told by logging truck driver Fred DeVaz that he was driving north when the light at the on Highway 2 intersection turned yellow. DeVaz told a KREM reporter that he saw the bus pull into the intersection and tried to swerve to avoid it, but couldn’t.

No one was seriously injured, according to Sevigney, the TV station reported.

Joe Hafner, the father of three sons on the bus, said his oldest son, Tristan, 12, was taken to a hospital emergency deparment, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and treated for a bump on his head.

“Tristan called me, actually, first,” Joe Hafner said. “I was waiting at the bus stop and he called me on a friend’s phone and said that the bus just got in an accident, and then just hung up.”

Hafner then called the bus garage, which confirmed that there had been an accident. He and his stepdaughter drove to the Riverside Store, near the accident location, and saw the bus was already on the side of the road. The log truck was in the parking lot of the gas station across the street.

Hafner was told the bus was going through the stoplight and the log truck may have run a red light.

He said his sons, Tristan and the two younger boys, were shaken up by the accident.

“Not good,” Hafner said of getting a phone call letting him know his sons’ school bus had been in an accident. “You think the worst.”