A substitute school bus driver has crashed a bus for the second time in less than a week.

The bus driver has not been identified, but Logan County Schools Superintendent Wilma Zigmond confirmed the crash in a phone interview early Tuesday morning.

“Yesterday (morning) at Eagle’s Roost, a substitute bus driver was driving an older, handicap bus and apparently went into a ditch and when she tried to pull out of the ditch, she hit a tree,” Zigmond said. “There were no kids on the bus.”

Zigmond would not confirm nor deny that the bus driver was the same driver who was involved in a fender bender last week.

A parent of a child who rides the bus said the driver got stuck in the ditch and, in an effort to get the bus out of the mud, she accelerated and the wheels got traction and sent the bus into a nearby tree.

“She tore the bus up. The springs and everything came out from under it,” the parent said. “She got stuck in the ditch and gave it the gas to get out and when she did get traction, she hit the tree.”

The parent said the driver was on her way to pick up her child when she crashed the bus.

“Thank God my child wasn’t on the bus,” the parent said. “You worry about your children. This morning, I called the school to make sure my baby made it safe to school. I was scared to death she wouldn’t make it.”

The parent said the crash happened around 7:20 a.m.

Damage to the bus was reportedly extensive.

The superintendent said the insurance company hasn’t looked at the bus yet to determine if it’s totaled.

On March 3, six days earlier, the same driver was sideswiped by a sport utility vehicle at Chapmanville.

There was one special needs student on the bus, but the student was not injured in the incident.