The teenager was charged with school bus in Lunenburg after the frontal car accident

Lunenburg Police charged an 18-year-old driver on Tuesday morning after taking a frontal collision with a school bus on their phone, according to the police authority.

The crash occurred in the 1300 block of the Lancaster Avenue, when the limousine that the teenager drove into the opposite trace, the police from Lunenburg wrote in a Facebook post. The speed was not a factor, but the limousine driver admitted to being distracted from her cell phone.

At the time of the crash, 20 people were in the school bus – including the students – but neither the people on the bus nor the limousine driver were injured in the crash, the police said. The school district arranged a second bus after the crash to bring the students to school.

The officers found that the 18-year-old drove negligently, the police said. As a result, they were charged criminal.

“Sending or reading a text puts your eyes off for 5 seconds. With 55 miles per hour, this is like the length of an entire soccer field with closed eyes,” the police wrote in the Facebook post. “You cannot drive safely unless the task of driving has its full attention. Every non -cereal activity that you run is a potential dividing and increases your crash.”