No injuries were reported after a school bus struck multiple parked vehicles this morning in Jefferson.

According to Police Chief Dave Morlan, at 7:41am a school bus driver with the Greene County Community School District, suffered a medical condition as he was leaving the circle drive lot on the west side of the middle school.  The driver was turning west out of the lot and attempted to turn south onto Iowa Highway 4.  As the driver suffered the medical complication, instead of turning south, the bus continued in a northwesterly direction, hitting two parked vehicles, pushing one of them into the northbound lanes of Highway 4.  The bus and the parked vehicle came to a rest on the highway.

There were students on the bus, though Morlan notes that none of them were injured. Officers were able to escort the kids into the middle school, where they waited until another school bus picked them up.

Minor damage was done to the bumper of a 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue, which was one of the parked vehicles involved in the incident.  The other vehicle, a 2009 Chrysler Town and Country van, was believed to be a total loss.  School bus damage is estimated to be about $2,000.

Morlan adds that the Jefferson Fire Department and the Greene County Sheriff’s office assisted at the scene and helped to re-route traffic on the highway between Harrison and Monroe streets, while the bus and the van were towed.