A driver crossed into oncoming traffic, setting off a chain-reaction crash that sent a school bus carrying students from the Maryland School for the Blind into a Parkville pharmacy Tuesday afternoon, according to Baltimore County Police.
Police said a person driving a 2017 Ford Focus was heading south on Harford Road when it crossed into the northbound lane, cutting into the path of the bus.
It’s unclear if the sedan struck the bus, but police said it hit a 2014 Nissan Altima. The bus veered off the road, going straight through the storefront of a pharmacy in the 8700 block of Harford Road.
Two adults and one child suffered minor injuries in the crash. The bus driver, another adult and a child riding the bus were taken to the hospital. Two other children from the bus and eight other individuals were treated at the scene and refused to go to the hospital.
Kylee Michael, a 20-year-old from Perry Hall who was a passenger in the Altima, said that she and her friend were sitting at a red light when they felt their vehicle get hit multiple times, “like a pileup,” by a black sedan.
When she got out of the car, the woman who said she had been driving the black sedan ran up to her wearing only one shoe and asked to use her phone to call her fiancé because she couldn’t find her phone, Michael said.
Michael let the woman use her phone.
“You’ve got to come here — I just got into a really bad car accident. I hit a bus head-on,” she heard the woman say on the phone.
The school bus, owned by Baltimore City Public Schools, was being used by the Maryland School for the Blind. It remains unclear where the bus was headed or coming from. Both the School for the Blind and the Baltimore County Public Schools system declined to comment on the incident.
The crash remains under investigation by the Baltimore County Police Department’s crash team.
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