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Bus rams cars, two injured
POCATELLO -- A District 25 school bus ran into the back of a Jeep stopped at a traffic light Friday afternoon, injuring a pregnant woman and her husband and causing the vehicle to ram a Toyota Camry in a chain reaction.
The accident occurred on East Gould Street at approximately 4:20 p.m. The vehicles that were struck were stopped at the traffic light at the intersection of Gould and McKinley Avenue. "She had to have been doing 20, 30 miles an hour," Bradley Hall, the driver of the Jeep said of the school bus. Hall, 50, was not injured, but two of his passengers were transported by ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center. Both were carried from the scene on back restraints. Hall said the woman, Tawna Ellsworth, who is in her seventh month of pregnancy, was struck by the Jeep's topper which flew off the vehicle when the bus struck it.
Ellsworth's husband, Daniel, was complaining of back pain after the impact, according to Hall. Jace Dredge, 24, was driving the vehicle that was rear-ended by Hall's Jeep in the chain reaction. Dredge reported no injuries. His vehicle sustained substantial damage to the rear bumper and trunk lid.
Westbound traffic on Gould Street was rerouted onto nearby Oak for more than an hour. The woman driver of the school bus appeared unhurt, but was not available for comment. No students were aboard the bus.
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