By MIKE CORN

mcorn@dailynews.net

LONG ISLAND -- Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and the agency's accident reconstruction team were dispatched to the scene of a school bus accident this morning in Phillips County.

Initial reports indicated that neither the driver nor the students on the school bus were injured, according to KHP Capt. Kelly McGuire, but the driver of the second vehicle involved in the crash was killed. At least one adult riding on the bus suffered unspecified injuries and was taken to Norton County Hospital.

The accident was reported this morning prior to the start of school, occurring about 2Ôªø1âÑ2 miles southwest of Long Island on Kansas Highway 383.

McGuire said the bus, a Almena-Northern Valley USD 212 vehicle, had 20 students, a driver and five other adults on board at the time of the accident.

Details remained sketchy, but McGuire said a car and the bus hit head on.

The car, he said, apparently drove left of center. The bus, McGuire said, went into the ditch in an attempt to avoid the car, but the car continued over across the road and hit the bus head on in the ditch.

"The driver of the car that was left of center was dead at the scene," McGuire said.

The driver's name was not released pending notification of next of kin.

"We've got the accident reconstruction team coming out there," McGuire said.

As a result, troopers remain on the scene so team members can arrive and take photographs and measurements to piece the accident back together and determine how the accident happened.