SC police look for driver in school bus wreck

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Columbia police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a woman they say fled the scene of a school bus wreck that injured a child.

In a statement Saturday, authorities said they’re looking for 20-year-old Whitley Monique Watson. They plan to charge her with hit and run, driving with a suspended license and having an open container in a vehicle.

Police say Watson crashed into a Richland School District 1 bus on Wednesday afternoon and then fled the scene. One student was taken to the hospital with non-serious injuries.

It was the second crash involving a district school bus in under a week.

Two days earlier, 85-year-old Constance Myers was killed when the car she was riding in crashed head-on into a school bus.