By Sarah Nagem
snagem@salisburypost.com
A vehicle rear-ended a school bus that was taking West Rowan High School students home Monday afternoon, school officials said.
No one was hurt when the vehicle ran into the bus around 2:40 p.m. on N.C. 801 near the intersection of Sherrills Ford Road, said Rowan-Salisbury School System spokeswoman Rita Foil.
Bus No. 303 was transporting 26 students and had just pulled out of the West Rowan High School parking lot, Foil said.
“(The vehicle) went under the back of the bus,” she said.
N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper C.R. Pierce said the driver of the 1989 Nissan sedan that hit the bus, 24-year-old Shana Adkins, of Cleveland, was not seriously injured.
“She said she had some chest pain, but she was not transported” to the hospital, Pierce said.
Pierce charged Adkins with failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision and having unsafe tires, though he said the tires did not contribute to the wreck.
Foil said the bus sustained minimal damage, and school officials determined it was safe for travel.
The driver finished the route Monday afternoon, Foil said.
Students did not get off the bus at the scene, said Jamie Durant, principal at West Rowan High School.
“It wasn’t any of our students who rear-ended the bus, so that was a good thing,” Durant said.