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LINCOLN, DELAWARE (4/17/2015) State troopers cited a dump truck driver with failing to stop at a red light after a collision on U.S. 113 involving three school buses that sent two drivers to a hospital. No students were injured.
The accident happened about 7:35 a.m. Thursday at the intersection with Johnson and Fitzgerald roads west of Lincoln.
The dump truck, driven by Dillon W. Taylor, 23, of Greenwood was northbound on U.S. 113 (DuPont Boulevard) when it struck the left front corner of a privately owned bus as it was turning left from Johnson Road to go south on U.S. 113. Mary E. Alexander, 65, of Ellendale, was driving the bus.
The truck then continued through the intersection and struck a school bus owned by RJK Transportation that was stopped in the southbound left turn lane, and the impact pushed that bus into another one owned by the same company that was directly behind it. Those two buses were heading for Morris Early Childhood Center in Lincoln. Tighmir I. Sayles, 23, of Milford, was driving the first bus and Audrey G. Wegner, 48 of Ellendale, was driving the one behind it, police said.
Alexander, who had no students on her bus, was taken by ambulance to Milford Memorial Hospital, where she was treated and released.
Taylor was taken to the same hospital, treated and released.
Sayles and his six student passengers, 3 and 4 years old, were uninjured.
Wegner, who had no students aboard, was uninjured.
Police said all involved were wearing seat belts.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control responded to clean up a diesel fuel spill from the dump truck. The highway had single-lane closures for about five hours as police investigated and the fuel was removed.