Teen driver injured after crash with school bus

Photo courtesy of Columbus Police Department.

A teen driver was seriously injured in a collision with a school bus Friday afternoon near 15th Street and Gladstone Avenue.

16-year-old Lynley Arnholt of Columbus was flown by Lifeline helicopter to IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, says Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman with the Columbus police.

The crash occurred at about 3:45 p.m. Harris says Arnholt suffered serious head injuries when her vehicle slammed into the back of the bus and became lodged underneath it.

Harris says that there were eight children on the bus at the time of they crash. Neither they, nor the bus driver, were hurt.