PARIS — Nearly two dozen middle and high school students in the Oxford Hills School District escaped injury Tuesday when a Jeep struck the front end of a school bus.

SAD 17 Transportation Director Dave Fontaine said the students were being taken home from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School and Oxford Hills Middle School when the crash occurred on Biscoe Road off Elm Hill Road at about 2:30 p.m.

The 21 students on the bus were jolted but not injured, officials said. The bus came to a stop a few yards beyond the Jeep.

Police said a 2008 Jeep Commander driven by Jennifer Curran, 37, of 31 Biscoe Road, was “inching” out of her driveway when the car may have slid slightly and hit the right front end of the school bus.

Officer Michael Dailey said Curran was trying to see beyond the snowbanks and may have slid at the end of the long, sloping driveway.

She was not injured, but her car received “extensive” front-end damage. She was able to pull the car back up her driveway. No citation will be issued, Dailey said.

Students were kept on the bus for about an hour as each was individually checked out by paramedics from Stephens Memorial Hospital as a precaution. They were released from the bus one by one and walked onto a second school bus driven by Fontaine.

The bus route goes from Elm Hill Road, left onto Biscoe Road then onto Cobble Hill Road, which is a dead end according to a parent who was at the scene.

Several other parents who heard about the collision came to the scene.

Highway Department crews had been treating the roads all day, but the conditions remained icy and slushy, Dailey said.

In 2012, eight Oxford Hills School District middle and high school students were treated in Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway for back and neck injuries and shock when a bus collided head-on with a car on Route 119 in Hebron. The driver of the car, a 19-year-old Paris man, was critically injured in that crash.

Fontaine said the bus would be taken back to the garage on Brown Street for evaluation before it goes back on the bus route.

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