Summerfield, FL (October 21, 2019) - A 70-year-old woman was killed in a crash involving a school bus and an SUV in Summerfield. The crash happened around 8:35 a.m. on County Road 42, near Southeast 117th Avenue.
According to reports from the Florida Highway Patrol, the woman was driving a GMC Yukon westbound on CR 42. The woman was traveling behind a school bus that had stopped to pick up a student. The Yukon rear-ended the bus, resulting in fatal injuries for the woman. One student and an aide aboard the bus sustained minor injuries in the accident. The woman was not identified.
There are no further details available at this time.
A car accident takes place in Florida approximately every 92 seconds and there will be about 400,000 accidents reported across our state this year. Well over half of these crashes will lead to injuries for one or more victims.
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