Bus driver escapes injury near Salem

A bus driver apparently traveling alone avoided major injury when the bus went off a country road near Salem and overturned.  The highway patrol was among the responders to this morning’s accident at 9:11 am on the N. Little River Road, three miles north of the town of Salem.  State patrol spokesman Joe Hovis says, for reasons unknown, the bus went off the road and flipped.  The bus is registered to the Andritz Hydro Corporation of Salem.