GIRL INJURED IN FOUR-CAR ACCIDENT

JACKSON -- a 15-year-old girl was injured early Tuesday after the car in which she was a passenger struck another vehicle stopped for a school bus.

Julia Grindstaff, of Millersville, was transported to the St. Francis Medical Center where she was treated for moderate injuries and released.

The four-car accident in which Grindstaff was injured occurred on Highway 72, five miles east of Jackson, at about 7:35 a.m.

Grindstaff was riding in a car driven by Angela Hatch, 16, of Millersville, which struck a car driven by Pauline Nitsch, 59, of Sedgewickville, which was stopped behind a loading school bus.

A car driven by Charlotte Miller, 54, of Millersville, then struck Hatch's car, which was in turn struck from the rear by a vehicle driven by Carl Bollinger, 22, of Patton, Mo.

All cars and the school bus were headed east. The school bus was not touched in the accident.