February 17, 1980

Church bus involved in accident

       This accident involving a church bus Sunday afternoon was one of five personal injury accidents reported to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department this past weekend. Three passengers on the Suburban Baptist Church bus and one passenger in the pickup truck received minor injuries in the accident on Olive Branch Road just east of Runyon Road in White River Township. The truck’s driver, Dave Dokmanovich, 17, 3722 W. Olive Branch Road, Greenwood, lost control on the icy road surface and slid into the bus driven by Prentiss E. Gilbert, 49, Indianapolis, according to the Sheriff’s Department report.  (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal)

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