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September 25, 2007

Car sideswipes school bus on reservoir causeway

SCITUATE -- A car and a school bus collided this morning, causing minor injuries to three people aboard the bus.

Scituate Police Capt. Stephen B. Lang said a car driven by a 16-year-old student bound for Mount St. Charles Academy was headed east on the causeway that carries Plainfield Pike across the Scituate Reservoir around 7:20 a.m. when it sideswiped the bus, which was going in the opposite direction.

Lang said the driver, whose name was withheld because he is a juvenile, apparently was blinded by the rising sun. “The sun is very strong at that time of morning,” he said.

The bus driver, Carol G. Gurjion, 67, complained of chest pains and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital.

The bus monitor, Erling Holm Jr., 52, reported lower back pain, and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital.

The only student aboard, a 14-year-old Scituate High School student, had had surgery recently, Lang said, and she was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital as a precaution.

Lang said no charges were filed immediately. He said investigators have not had a chance to interview the bus driver and monitor.

-- Journal staff writer Thomas J. Morgan

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