Close call for five students in vehicle accident

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Story Created: Nov 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM EST

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - Five students between 15 and 20 years of age escaped injury Monday afternoon when a car and a school bus collided in front of Sangertown Square Mall in New Hartford.

New Hartford Police say the accident happened around 2:30pm when New York Mills school bus driver, Richard W. Thomas, 65, New Hartford,  was heading west on Seneca Turnpike.  Police say an eastbound car, driven by Virginia A. Dotzler, 63, Vernon Center, turned left across the path of the bus.
    
No injuries were reported.

Dotzler was ticketed for failure to yield and driving an uninsured vehicle.  She will be back in New Hartford Town Court on December 29th.

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