UPDATE

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Authorities have identified the woman who died after she crashed head-on into a school bus in central North Dakota Friday afternoon. The state Highway Patrol said Danelle Germain, 35, of Harvey, died after the crash on State Highway 200 just east of Pickardville that caused the bus with nine children aboard to overturn. The Patrol said Germain was driving east in a Chevrolet Impala when she crossed the center line and hit a trailer being towed by a pickup truck before crashing into the Turtle Lake/Mercer district school bus. The bus driver, Melinda Neff, 47, of Mercer, got the children off the bus and they sustained only bruises and scrapes. The 79-year-old man driving the pickup was not hurt.

Previously

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A woman is dead after the car she was driving crashed head-on into a school bus in central North Dakota. Authorities say the 35-year-old woman from Harvey was traveling westbound on State Highway 200 just east of Pickardville on Friday afternoon when she drifted across the center line. She hit a trailer being towed by a pickup truck and then crashed into the Turtle Lake/Mercer Public School bus. Nine children between 10 and 12 years old were on the bus. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the children and the bus driver suffered bruises and scrapes. The pickup driver wasn’t hurt. Authorities have not identified the dead woman.