Sep 16, 2024

3 children, Kan. teen driver hospitalized after car, school bus accident

Posted Sep 16, 2024 7:00 PM

JEFFERSON COUNTY—Four people were injured in an accident involving a school bus just after 7a.m. Monday in Jefferson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2010 Volvo S80 driven by Linn Cote, 15, Ozawkie, was eastbound up a hill in the 12,000 Block of Kansas 92 just east of McCarter Drive. 

The sun was in the driver's eyes and he was unable to see a school bus driven by John Norman, 73, Oskaloosa, stopped picking up passengers. The car rear-ended the school bus.

EMS transported Cote and three passengers on the bus identified as 3-year-old Landry Milner, 5-year-old Serenity Eastridge and 10-year-old Annsley Eastridge, all of Oskaloosa, to Stormont Vail in Topeka.  Norman and sixteen other passengers on the bus were not injured.  Cote was properly restrained, according to the KHP.  The KHP did not have details on the school or district involved.