CLEARWATER, FL - The Clearwater Police Department has reported that the driver of a Mini Cooper involved in a crash with a school bus Thursday morning has died.
The accident occurred on South Missouri Avenue at Lotus Path. Police say two school buses were heading south on Missouri around 7 a.m. when the first one stopped to pick up children. The second bus also stopped behind the first, but the Mini Cooper’s driver did not. The man’s car ran into the back of the second bus.
Police say the driver, Bobby Brooks Campbell, 92, of Clearwater was taken to Morton Plant Hospital where he later died.
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“There were no students on the second bus,” the department wrote in an email to media. “The driver, who was not injured, had completed her high school run for the morning and was en route to pick up elementary school students.”
The accident closed southbound lanes on Missouri Avenue for a time. They have since reopened.
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