No serious injuries in bus-car accident

Two students were shaken up but no serious injuries were reported Tuesday morning when a charter bus carrying 40 seventh-graders from Wheaton's Monroe Middle School struck a car in Glen Ellyn.

The two youngsters were taken to Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, where they were checked out and released to their parents, authorities said.

The students were heading to Chicago's Navy Pier to see a Shakespeare play when the accident occurred, Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 spokesman Bob Rammer said. A second bus was sent to pick up the students after the accident and, with the exception of the two youngsters taken to the hospital, they all returned to Monroe.

School officials informed parents about the accident using phone and e-mail messages.

Glen Ellyn Deputy Police Chief Bill Holmer said the driver of the charter bus was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

Holmer said the car and bus both were heading east on Roosevelt Road at the time of the accident. The car was turning left into a private drive when the bus struck it from behind.