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Show e S School Bus Wrecked, Not Leaded Considerable damage was sustained by a county school bus at 8:15 a.m. last Thursday Thurs-day when the driver, lost control of the vehicle and it plunged over a 35 foot embankment em-bankment and overturned, landing on its left side. There were no passengers on the bus yet, and the driver dri-ver Mrs. Letty Stocks received re-ceived only bruises. She was taken to the hospital by the school transportation supervisor super-visor Reed Somerville where she was treated and released. releas-ed. The accident occurred S3, cf Moab on what is known as Garrett Hill. The investigating investi-gating officer, Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Robert Ritchie said thai a combination of factors, a soft shoulder on the right side of the road, and strong gusty winds caused the driver dri-ver to lose control and go over the embankment. "Wig-gens "Wig-gens Wrecking service was summoned to right the bus and tow it back to town. The bus was purchased just last year from the Carbon County Coun-ty for a relatively small amount. Deputy Ritchie estimated es-timated that repairs to the bus would be more than the purchase price. But at the time of this writ in;, the School District plans concerning con-cerning the repair or replacement re-placement of the bus was not known. |