{"id":102376,"date":"2026-01-16T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:56:08","slug":"manhattan-woman-identified-as-driver-killed-in-collision-with-school-bus-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102376\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan woman identified as driver killed in collision with school bus \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Makenna M. Maurisak, 24, of Manhattan<\/a> has been identified as the driver killed in a collision with a school bus<\/a> on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The collision occurred on Manhattan-Monee Road in Manhattan Township, near Kankakee Street and west of Schoolhouse Road in southeastern Will County.<\/p>\n

Maurisak was pronounced dead at 11:35 a.m. at the scene of the crash, which occurred at about 8:17 a.m., according to the news release from the Will County<\/a> Coroner\u2019s Office on Friday.<\/p>\n

State police<\/a> are investigating the accident and have not yet released details on how it happened.<\/p>\n

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The location where a Manhattan School District 114 bus collided with a passenger vehicle, near the intersection of Manhattan Monee Road and Kankakee Road, in southeastern Will County on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Photo by Bob Okon)<\/p>\n

But a school bus towed away from the scene could be seen with its front end smashed in.<\/p>\n

The driver of the school bus and 10 Manhattan elementary school children were taken to Silver Cross Hospital<\/a> in New Lenox<\/a> for minor injuries but in good condition, according to the Manhattan Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Makenna M. Maurisak, 24, of Manhattan has been identified as the driver killed in a collision with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3302,2214,3662,46428,8958,46427,75,84,83,9,24,40757,63,10780,7058,40758,2585,7057],"class_list":["post-102376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-breaking","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-fire-district","tag-illinois-state-police","tag-kankakee","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-lenox","tag-nyc","tag-school","tag-shaw-local-front-headlines","tag-silver-cross-hospital","tag-students","tag-will-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}