Two students sustained minor injuries after a car collided with the bus they were passengers in while traveling on State Road Wednesday afternoon.

The crash occurred at approximately 12:25 p.m. on State Road at the New Meadows River near the Brunswick line. 

According to a press release issued by the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department, Philip Wallace, 30, of Phippsburg was driving a 2011 Ford Fiesta on State Road when he crossed the centerline and hit a school bus driven by Raymond Bernier, 48, of Oakland. 

The bus was carrying seven students from Regional School Unit 1’s Bath Regional Career and Technical Center located next to Morse High School. Two of the students suffered minor injuries and one was transported to a local hospital. Bernier, the driver, was not injured. 

Wallace sustained significant but nonlife-threatening injuries and was transported to Maine Medical Center. A passenger in the car, Rebecca Dyer, 34, of Phippsburg, was transported to Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick and was treated and released. 

The crash remains under investiation and is being reconstructed by Bath and Brunswick police departments.

“At this point it appears that the driver of the Ford Fiesta crossed the centerline striking the school bus and that drugs and/or alcohol are a factor in this accident,” the release states.

State Road was shut down following the crash but had reopened by 4 p.m.

dmoore@timesrecord.com