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.
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