Troopers and deputies responded to one collision between a pickup truck and tractor trailer, and two crashes between cars and school buses Tuesday morning.
Danielle Baker, 16, was on her way to school at Kenton Ridge when her car slid into the back of a stopped school bus in the northbound lane in the 7700 block of Springfield Jamestown Road around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Part of Baker’s vehicle was wedged underneath the bus and the car’s front windshield ejected in the crash.
“I was thinking I was going to die,” said Baker.
The bus, from Cedar Cliff schools in Greene County, was stopped to pick up a student who might have been boarding the bus at the time of the crash, said Sgt. Terry Bush, Ohio Highway Patrol.
No other students were on the bus and no one was injured, he said.
Baker will likely be cited for failure to control, the trooper said.
There were also no injuries in a second school bus crash in the 4800 block of Mechanicsburg Road or the tractor trailer crash at Interstates 70 and 675, officials said.
The slippery conditions was the result of a light drizzle on top of more than an inch of snow, said Dick Groeber of Dick’s Weather Service.
Temperatures fell into the mid-teens Tuesday, a drastic change from 2009 and 2008 when the mercury reached highs in the 50s, said Groeber.
“It’s much colder than this time last year,” he said.
The first big snowfall locally came Dec. 27, when the area saw 2.5 inches of accumulation, said Groeber.
And there’s more to come, said senior meterologist Carl Erickson, Accuweather.com.
The area could see a “fast-moving system” early Thursday that could drop 1 to 3 inches of snow, said Erickson.
The frigid temperatures will continue to linger in the high teens to mid-20s throughout the weekend, coming back up to the lower 30s by next week, he said.
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