LYNNWOOD — A four-vehicle crash involving two school buses north of Lynnwood left neighbors saying a traffic signal at the accident site won’t come soon enough.

None of the six children aboard the buses was injured in the Friday, June 17 accident, but a 22-year-old Lynnwood woman driver was treated at a hospital.

The accident happened in a residential area at the intersection of 35th Avenue W. and 156th Street SW about 8:15 a.m.

An Edmonds School District bus was eastbound on 156th Street SW when it was hit by a sport utility vehicle going south on 35th Avenue W., Snohomish County Sheriff’s Deputy Rich Niebusch said.

The impact pushed the bus into a northbound pickup truck. The SUV glanced off the first bus and struck a second bus headed westbound on 156th Street SW.

The SUV driver was taken to Stevens Hospital. Her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, Niebusch said.

Deputies are investigating the cause of the crash.

Five students were taken to Oak Heights Elementary School, where they are enrolled in a special education class.

A sixth child was taken to his baby sitter and then to Brier Elementary School. Because he had not been seen by a paramedic at the crash site, he was later taken to Stevens Hospital as a precautionary measure, said Debbie Jakala, a school district spokeswoman.

The intersection is scheduled to get a traffic light by late 2006, said Jim Bloodgood, Snohomish County traffic operations manager. The decision to install a signal there was based largely on the increasing volume of traffic, he said.

Eric Stevick is a writer for The Herald in Everett.