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Published - Saturday, September 13, 2008

UPDATE: Woman injured in bus, car collision

TOWN OF BURNS -- A rural Bangor woman was airlifted with serious injuries after her vehicle was struck by a Bangor school bus this afternoon on Highway DE about 2.5 miles north of Highway 16.

A Pontiac Aztek driven by Heather Sebranek, 33, was pulling onto the highway at N6322 Hwy. DE at about 3:48 p.m. when it was struck broadside by the bus, which was northbound on Highway DE, according to the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department.

Members of the Bangor-Burns Fire Department cut off the driver’s side door to extract the woman from the vehicle.

Sebranek, who was pregnant, was flown by MedLink helicopter to a La Crosse hospital. She was listed in critical condition on Thursday evening.

The bus driver, Larry Langrehr, and the six children he was transporting were not injured. Langrehr is a 22-year veteran school bus driver.

Officers still were investigating at the crash scene.