Accident scene A law enforcement officer questioned the driver of the Staples Motley School District bus while the driver of the other vehicle involved in an accident on Friday afternoon was being taken to a waiting ambulance. Margaret Dyer of Staples has since been listed in satisfactory condition at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. (Staples World photo by Tom Crawford) Emergency medical personnel attended to an injured driver from both sides of her vehicle Friday afternoon after an accident at the Highway 10 intersection adjacent to the Lakewood Health System hospital. Margaret Dyer, 94,of Staples, was listed in satisfactory condition at Hennepin County Medical Center on Tuesday. The state patrol reported she apparently crossed the westbound lanes in front of a Staples Motley School District bus, driven by Joan Holmberg. Holmberg said none of the approximately 40 students on board her bus were injured. (Staples World photo by Tom Crawford)

An elderly Staples woman was injured Friday when her vehicle and a Staples Motley School District bus collided on Highway 10 at the Todd County Road 83 intersection.

Ninety-four-year old Margaret Dyer of Staples suffered what the highway patrol listed as “non lifethreatening injuries” - and was transported to the Lakewood Health System hospital, located near that intersection.

Assisting the driver No one aboard the bus was injured.

Joan Holmberg was driving the Staples Motley bus with about 40 students on board. She was westbound in the right-hand lane on Highway 10. Dyer had been eastbound on Highway 10 and was attempting to make a left turn onto County Road 83 when she pulled in front of the bus.

Holmberg said she saw the car at the intersection, thought that it had stopped, and then saw it pulling onto Highway 10. She slammed on the brakes, she said and told her students to hang on.

“They don’t like me, because I make them sit down and not move. Now they know why,” she said of her student riders. The students did not have seat belts, but the seats have padded backs to protect students.

The bus hit the passenger side of Dyer’s car, spinning it around and causing it to hit the posts holding up a stop sign for southbound motorists on County Road 83.

Emergency personnel tended to the 94 year old driver and transported her to the nearby Lakewood Health System emergency room. She was stabilized at the Staples hospital and shortly afterward transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. A HCMC spokesperson on Tuesday said she was listed in satisfactory condition.

The students aboard the bus were first checked for injuries and then transferred to a second bus and taken to their destination, which was to the high school for transferring to other buses.

Holmberg’s bus had the front bumper broken off and other front end damage. It was towed from the scene by the Staples Motley School District’s wrecker.

Responding to the scene were the Staples Police, Staples Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, Department of Natural Resources officers, Staples Ambulance, Todd County Sheriff’s officers and the Minnesota State Patrol.

Both vehicles were towed from the scene, Dyer’s vehicle by Southtown Towing.