A 27-year-old Saint Cloud woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a school bus struck her in a crosswalk on Tuesday morning, Saint Cloud police said.
Officers were called at 7 a.m. Oct. 20 to a crash with injuries at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 5th Street South, according to a news release from the Saint Cloud Police Department.
Police said the woman was crossing the street northbound in the crosswalk when the bus, also heading north, turned west onto 5th Street South. The driver, an 86-year-old Sartell man, did not see her and hit her, the release says.
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A Mayo ambulance took her to Saint Cloud Hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
The bus was carrying students for School District 742 and is run under contract by Palmer Bus Service. Neither the driver nor any of the students reported injuries, according to police.
The Saint Cloud Fire Department also responded, and the Minnesota State Patrol helped reconstruct the crash. The police department’s Patrol Unit is continuing to investigate.
