INWOOD—A 38-year-old Inwood man received minor injuries when he crashed his vehicle to potentially avoid hitting a school bus about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the intersection of 260th Street and Cherry Avenue, about three miles southwest of Inwood.
Daniel Evan Brown was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado west on 260th Street, a blacktop, when a 2023 Blue Bird school bus, traveling north on Cherry Avenue, a gravel road, pulled out from a stop before the driver, 34-year-old Melanie Jane Vande Waerdt of Hudson, SD, slammed on the brakes and stopped in the eastbound lane, according to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.
Brown swerved to the north and his pickup ran off the road to the right before striking the northwest ditch of the intersection…