School bus wreck on SR 47 leads to arrest

By Carrie A. Mizell

A 49-year-old High Springs man was arrested last week after running into the back of a Gilchrist County school bus delivering students home from Trenton Middle-High School.
No one was injured in the Wednesday afternoon accident, but Donald Arthur Carr of High Springs was arrested and charged with Driving While License is Suspended/Revoked.

There were no students on the bus at the time of the wreck. The bus driver, Susan Wells, had just finished delivering all the students and was on her way home when the accident occurred.
“We were extremely fortunate that no one was injured as part of this accident,” said Superintendent Don Thomas.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Donald Carr was driving a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass west on NE 30th Street just after 4 p.m. last Wednesday when he ran into the back of Bus 36, which was stopped at a stop sign on NE 30th Street at State Road 47.
Carr reportedly told Trooper T.O. Strickland of the Florida Highway Patrol that NE 30th Street, which is a dirt road, was very dry and dusty and when the dust started to settle the bus appeared stopped in front of him.
Wells, 54, of Bell, was driving Bus 36 at the time of the accident and reportedly told investigators that she felt a bump and when the dust cleared from the road she saw the car behind her had hit the bus.
At press time, Carr was being held at the Gilchrist County Jail on a $1,500 bond.