Two Otter Creek people died when their pickup collided with a school bus Wednesday morning on US Highway 19 in Levy County.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) release, a 76-year-old Otter Creek man was driving a pickup west on State Road 24 and was approaching the intersection of US Highway 19 at 5:58 a.m. in Otter Creek while a 39-year-old Chiefland woman driving a school bus was traveling south on US 19 in the right lane while approaching the same intersection.
The pickup then crossed over the northbound lanes through the intersection and entered the southbound lanes, directly into the school bus’s path of travel. The school bus crashed with the pickup’s right side in a T-bone-type collision.
Levy County Fire Rescue responders pronounced the pickup driver and the passenger, a 72-year-old Otter Creek woman, dead on scene.
The school bus driver was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. No children were reportedly on board the school bus.
That is my bus driver and we were waiting until we didn’t see the bus coming for us in otter Creek but the police and just now found out that is was my bus 1606
What is it about school bus’s in Levy County Seems like everyone is hitting one
A traffic light at this intersection would be extremely helpful… how many accidents, near misses and fatalities have to happen