A school bus carrying 18 students was rear-ended on Main Road in Peconic Friday afternoon, Southold Town Police said in a press release issued this morning.
No one on the bus was injured in the accident, police said.
The bus was stopped in the roadway in Peconic, near town police headquarters at about 3:25 Friday afternoon with its red lights flashing waiting to discharge a student when a 2004 Ford Focus operated by Cornelius Schloth, 84, of Southold struck the bus in the rear, police said. Both vehicles were damaged in the crash. Schloth and his wife, a passenger in the Focus were transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead by Southold Fire Department Ambulance for treatment of minor injuries, police said.
School officials responded to the scene and all of the students were transported by a second bus back to their school where they were released to their parents, according to the police report.
