Scary moments when a Lake Area school bus hits a car from behind on Highway-42, at Countryside Lane, in Miller County. The highway patrol report indicates it happened shortly after 3:45 Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the bus, from the School of the Osage District, was identified as 61-year-old Deborah Peterson of Brumley. Peterson was, reportedly, being distracted by children on the bus as she crested a hill before hitting the car driven by 23-year-old Robert Switzer of Richland. Switzer suffered moderate injuries while one child on the bus, a 6-year-old girl from Brumley, suffered minor injuries. Both were treated at Lake Regional. The rest of the children were checked out by medical personnel before being returned to campus and released to their parents and/or guardians.
