{"id":18517,"date":"2025-02-07T06:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/dash-cam-shows-minnesota-school-bus-driver-taking-evasive-action-to-avoid-head-on-crash-with-big-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:56:29","slug":"dash-cam-shows-minnesota-school-bus-driver-taking-evasive-action-to-avoid-head-on-crash-with-big-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/dash-cam-shows-minnesota-school-bus-driver-taking-evasive-action-to-avoid-head-on-crash-with-big-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash cam shows Minnesota school bus driver taking evasive action to avoid head-on crash with big rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Mille Lacs County Sheriff\u2019s Office share dash cam video capturing a terrifying near head-on collision with a semi truck.<\/p>\n<p>The close call occurred around 7:15 a.m. on February 5 on U.S. Highway 169 in Mille Lacs County in central Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that a northbound semi truck crossed over into the lane of the southbound bus, forcing the bus driver to take evasive action to avoid a head-on crash.<\/p>\n<p>The semi collided with the rear passenger side of the school bus.<\/p>\n<p>Four students and four staff members were on board the bus, but no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>School bus driver Brian Lathrop\u00a0\u201cundoubtedly saved many lives,\u201d Sheriff Kyle Burton said.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the dash cam video below.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dashcam video shows bus driver narrowly avoids head-on collision with semi in central Minnesota\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESWETzYT-Vg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/dash-cam-shows-minnesota-school-bus-driver-taking-evasive-action-to-avoid-head-on-crash-with-big-rig\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mille Lacs County Sheriff\u2019s Office share dash cam video capturing a terrifying near head-on collision with a semi truck. The close call occurred around 7:15 a.m. on February 5 on U.S. Highway 169 in Mille Lacs County in central Minnesota. Police say that a northbound semi truck crossed over into the lane of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}