From police reporter Brian Dzenis:

HAMILTON — A small school bus carrying three 7-year-old students hopped a curb and struck a fence following an accident Tuesday morning.

According to Hamilton police, Dan Murphy, 69, of Red Bank, was driving his Mercedes SUV was travelling east on Samuel Street around 9:30 a.m. when his vehicle came to a stop sign at the intersection with South Clinton Avenue. Murphy told police that he inched his vehicle into the intersection looking for oncoming traffic and assumed the coast was clear. Murphy proceeded through the intersection and his vehicle’s left front bumper struck the right front corner of the bus.

The driver of the bus, Gwendolyn Dismukes, 56, of Trenton, told police she was travelling south on South Clinton Avenue when she saw Murphy’s vehicle pull into the intersection and she applied her brakes before the collision. After the collision, the bus went southeast and hopped the curb and hit a chain link fence in the 2100 block of South Clinton Avenue.

The students on the bus were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton as a precaution. No injuries were reported. Murphy was issued a summons for failing to stop or yield.