WYANDOTTE COUNTY —Twelve junior high school students riding a USD 231 Gardner-Edgerton school bus on the way home from a volleyball game avoided injury in an accident just before 7p.m. Tuesday in Wyandotte County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Honda Accord driven by William Andrew Mathes, 31, Independence, was northbound U.S. 73 at Parallel Parkway.
The car traveled left of center and sideswiped a southbound school bus driven by Whitney Lee Wheeler, 33, Gardner. After impact, the car traveled off the road and struck a ditch. Wheeler and the student volleyball players were not injured.
Mathes and a passenger in the car were not wearing seat belts and not injured, according to the KHP.