Leader Staff
Authorities say it will be next week before a cause can be determined in the crash Tuesday between a school bus and a car that killed one person and injured 14 others.
The bus was carrying members of the Pulaski varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams back to the school from a match in Seymour when the accident took place shortly before 9 p.m. on state Highway 29 near Pulaski.
A passenger in the car, Shannon Hall, 24, of Athens, was pronounced dead at the scene. The 27-year-old driver, a Marathon man, was taken to a Green Bay hospital with severe injuries, according to the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department. There was no update on his condition available Thursday.
Six students were transported to the hospital by ambulance. At least five additional occupants were transported by parents to hospitals after initial medical evaluation at the scene, the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department said.
All were released after treatment, district superintendent Milt Thompson said Wednesday.
Sheriff’s Department Capt. Tom Tuma said the crash reconstruction, which is being handled by Brown County authorities, was expected to take place over the weekend.
Tuma also said the crash investigation could take some time given the “substantial number” of people to be interviewed.
Twenty-five people were on the bus, including 21 students, three coaches and the bus driver, a 74-year-old Green Bay man.
Authorities said the car, which was traveling westbound on Highway 29, hit the rear of the northbound bus as it was crossing the highway. Both vehicles came to rest in fields on either side of South St. Augustine Street just north of Highway 29.