Driver loses control of bus holding 5 pupils

CARMEL – A school bus with five pupils aboard went off the road in Carmel Thursday afternoon. Despite rolling onto its side, no one was injured and the bus was apparently unscathed.

The bus driver was distracted by a pupil while making a turn on the Murray Road, about a half-mile from the Newburgh town line, said Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Garrit McKee, who is assigned to Carmel. The driver lost control of the full-sized bus on the soft right shoulder and the bus rolled over onto its side.

The driver and five pupils on board were unnerved by the accident, according to the deputy.

“The students were shaken up, but no one was injured,” McKee said.

Discount Towing pulled the bus back onto all four wheels and McKee said that, surprisingly, there was no damage.