SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — A driver sustained major injuries in a collision with a school bus in the Santa Cruz Mountains Monday that also left two child passengers minimally injured, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Cruz office.
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At approximately 9:50 a.m. Monday, a 67-year-old woman from San Jose was driving a Mini Cooper southbound on Highway 17 north of Vine Hill Road in unincorporated Santa Cruz County at an undetermined rate of speed. She ended up colliding with the rear of a Cupertino Union School District bus carrying 24 children and one adult, the CHP wrote on social media. This sent the Mini Cooper in a southwesterly direction where the car left the roadway and crashed into a tree.
The Mini Cooper driver sustained major injuries and was transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. Two of the children on the bus received minor injuries, neither of which required them to go to the hospital, the CHP reported. The two adults on the bus, including the driver, were uninjured.
CHP officers are still working to determine what caused the crash, including why the Mini Cooper driver hit the bus, and investigators have not yet ascertained if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the collision. Officer Israel Murrillo, CHP Santa Cruz’s public information officer, said officers are working to review physical measurements, collect evidence and prepare a report.
