By NANCY BADERTSCHER

							By NANCY BADERTSCHER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/19/07


A Forsyth County school bus driver was injured Friday when a deer was struck by a car
and thrown through the bus's windshield.

An eight-year old student from Settles Bridge Elementary in Suwanee and a bus monitor
witnessed the incident, but were not injured, said Jennifer Caracciolo, the school system's
spokeswoman.

Capt. Frank Huggins, spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, said a car
traveling east on Echols Road near Buford Highway struck the deer shortly before 7 a.m.

The deer flew threw through the air and landed in the windshield of the school bus, which
was heading in the opposite direction, Caracciolo said.

The bus driver, 73-year-old Dorothy Varano of Cumming, was taken to North Fulton
Hospital with cuts and bruises, Huggins said.

Caracciolo said Varano has been a bus driver and monitor with the school system since
2001 and was substituting for another bus driver on Friday when the accident occurred.