Seven people, including four elementary school students, were injured in a Monday afternoon two-vehicle on Route 896 near Smoketown.

A school bus with about 30 Smoketown Elementary students aboard collided with a sport-utility vehicle in front of the Good N' Plenty restaurant, East Lampeter Township police said.

Bus driver Rebecca John was pulling out of the parking lot of Good N' Plenty, 150 Eastbrook Road, and turned into the path of a southbound Jeep Cherokee at about 2:30 p.m., police said.

Four students on the bus were taken to Lancaster General Hospital. They had bumps and bruises. but none were seriously injured, officials said.

Melissa Heisey, 24, who was driving the Jeep, and her two passengers also had minor injuries.

The passengers were Heisey's 10-month-old son and her mother, Sharon Ford, , 52.

East Lampeter Township police Officer Shawn Berry said the bus driver made a left turn in front of the Jeep. The Jeep wasn't traveling above the posted 45-mph speed limit prior to the crash, police said.

"This was just a failure to recognize another vehicle by the bus driver," Berry said.

John, 28, of Ephrata, will be charged with a summary violation of vehicles entering or crossing a roadway, the officer said.

Earlier Monday, a crash happened on Pilgrims Pathway in Fulton Township after a motorist lost control because of material on the roadway, Lancaster state police said.

Sarah E. Osborne, 19, of Peach Bottom was driving north at 8:10 a.m. and encountered tar and chips when she tried to negotiate a left curve, Trooper Kevin L. Reed reported.

Osborne's 1996 Mercury Mystique fishtailed to the right. When the woman tried to regain control by counter-steering, she overcompensated and the car spun 180 degrees to the right, Reed said.

The car left the roadway and struck a utility pole and fence, police said. There was no word if the woman was injured.

On Friday morning, a tractor-trailer accident near the center of Lititz caused the Wilbur Chocolate factory to close for the day, Lititz police said.

John E. Fazenbaker, 47, of Clear Spring, Md., near Frederick, was attempting to make a delivery to a local business, police said.

When Fazenbaker turned his rig from Kleine Street onto Pine Lane at 10:45 a.m., the trailer got caught on a telephone line, police said.

The truck kept moving, and the pole that the line was attached to was pulled away. This snapped the main power line into the chocolate factory, police said.

"This accident caused the Wilbur Chocolate Factory to close down for the day due to no power," a police press release stated.

Staff writer John M. Hoober III can be reached at jhoober@LNPnews.com or 481-6027.