Route 14 near Woodstock was completely shut down after a car sustained significant damage when it crashed into a stopped school bus picking up a student Thursday morning.
The Woodstock Fire/Rescue District and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded around 6:42 a.m. Thursday to the 16200 block of Route 14 in unincorporated Woodstock for a report of a school bus crash.
Emergency crews arrived to find a two-vehicle crash involving a red sedan and a District 200 school bus.
The sedan sustained heavy damage to the front of the vehicle and the bus sustained damage to its rear driver side.
Woodstock Fire/Rescue District Public Information Officer Alex Vucha said nine students were on the bus along with the driver.
All of the bus occupants were uninjured, Vucha said. The male driver of the sedan was also uninjured.
A woman who lives at the home where the crash occurred in front of said the school bus was stopped with its warning lights activated.
The woman said her daughter started walking toward the bus to board when the red sedan crashed into the rear of the bus.
“Thank goodness she wasn’t any closer to the doors. She’s is quite traumatized right now,” the woman told Lake and McHenry County Scanner.
“Everyone was thankfully okay, just shaken up,” she said, adding that the driver of the sedan was possibly on his phone at the time of the crash.
A second school bus responded to the scene to transfer the children from the damaged bus.
Route 14 was completely shut down between Park Lane and Hartland Road until tow trucks could remove the vehicles.