Three injured when shool bus hits car in Seffner

SEFFNER - Three people were taken to area hospitals Monday morning after a Hillsborough County school bus crashed into the back of a car stopped at a red light.

None of the injuries were life-threatening.

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper on the scene said the crash was the fault of bus driver Sharon Jackson, 57.

Jackson has been driving a bus for Hillsborough County since 1979 and has no prior accidents, according to school district spokeswoman Linda Cobbe.

Jackson had dropped a load of students at Mann Middle School shortly before the 9 a.m. crash. No students were on the bus at the time of the incident.

FHP reports said the bus driver was heading west on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when she struck the back end of a Honda stopped at a light at Highview Road.
An adult attendant to special needs students was on the bus and was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital with chest and neck pain.

The driver and a passenger in the Honda were taken to Brandon Regional Hospital.
Jackson’s Florida driving record shows she was cited three times for speeding in the 1990s and once for an expired tag. Adjudication was withheld in the speeding cases, and no points were issued against her license for the expired tag.

 

--Jan Wesner, Times staff writer

Photo by Skip O'Rourke, Times