World Photo by Jolene Guzman Emergency personnel remove the passenger of a pickup truck involved in an accident with a school bus Wednesday afternoon in downtown Coos Bay. The students and school bus driver were not hurt, but the pickup driver and passenger were taken to Bay Area Hospital.

Coos Bay firefighters are making repairs to the downtown fire hall after an accident between a school bus and pickup damaged one of the station’s doors.

“We heard a crash and looked up in time to see parts of the bus flying by,” Fire Battalion Chief Mark Anderson said.

The crash happened at about 3 p.m., with the bus and pickup colliding in the middle of the Fourth Street and Anderson Avenue intersection, according to a Coos Bay press release. The bus was driving north on Fourth and the 1989 Nissan Datsun truck was driving east on Anderson when one of the vehicles ran a red light.

Police said the bus, driven by Deborah Talley, 43, of Coos Bay was returning students to Sunset Middle School after an event at Marshfield High School.

None of the 24 students on the bus nor the driver reported injuries. The pickup’s driver, Erick Anderson, 20, of Coquille and passenger Daniel Anderson, 22, of Coos Bay, were taken to Bay Area Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Coos Bay Police Sgt. Chris Chapanar said.

A hospital spokeswoman said both Erick and Daniel were in fair condition this morning.

The school bus was driven from the scene, but the students were transferred to another bus for the rest of the trip back to school.

Anderson said it’s common to have accidents at that intersection, but not to have vehicles actually hit the fire station. The truck destroyed the middle bay door. Anderson said there was minor damage to the undercarriage of a smaller emergency vehicle. The door is scheduled to be fixed by Saturday at an estimated cost of $3,000.

Anderson added that it was fortunate the accident hadn’t happen a few hours earlier when the station had all its trucks and equipment on the driveway. The pickup would have bounced around like a pin ball, he said.

“It could have been much worse if that truck had bumped up against a school bus and then hit a truck,” Anderson said.

The accident remains under investigation.