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Driver in crash involving school bus charged with OUI

Photo: Sabattus Police Department


SABATTUS, Maine (WGAN) Police have arrested a woman who they say crashed into a school bus in Sabattus.

Our info partners at CBS 13 news report 29-year-old Jamie Lee Driscoll is charged with operating under the influence in connection with the crash. Police say the bus was stopped at the intersection of Bowdoinham and Beaver Road Monday afternoon to let students out when the SUV struck the back of it. A 12-year-old was treated at the scene and released. There were no other injuries and minimal damage to the bus.

Students were then transferred to another bus, which was later struck in a hit-and-run. That vehicle was a white utility truck last seen on Bowdoinham road.

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