TOWN OF HAMBURG, Wis. — A semi based out of Verona was involved in a Thursday afternoon crash with a school bus, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office shared Sunday morning.
The county’s 911 dispatch center was notified of a two-vehicle crash shortly after 3 p.m. on U.S. Highway 14 at Brye Lane in rural Coon Valley, in the Town of Hamburg. The crash also occurred within the bounds of the Westby Area School District.
Officials said a 69-year-old man from rural Viroqua was operating a 29-passenger school bus on Brye Lane, approaching the U.S. Highway 14 intersection. He had stopped at the intersection, waiting for cross traffic to clear before making a left turn onto the highway to proceed east…