RATHDRUM — This was a jolt that Jeremiah Atkinson never wants to experience again.

The fifth-grader was among about 50 Betty Kiefer Elementary students involved in a rear-end collision at the intersection of Highway 41 and Lancaster Road on Thursday afternoon.

"I was a little scared because I hit the seat," Jeremiah said. "Three kids were crying and some were giggling, which made me mad. I used my friend's phone to call my grandma."

Six students, who were aboard the Lakeland Joint School District bus when it was struck while it was about to turn east onto Lancaster from southbound Highway 41, were evaluated on scene for minor injuries and not transported to the hospital, according to Idaho State Police.

Trisha Bright, 19, the driver of Vacation Rental Authority's Honda SUV, suffered minor injuries and was transported via a private vehicle. She will be cited for inattentive driving, said ISP Sgt. Tim Johnson.

"Thankfully everyone is all right," said William Lantto, Jeremiah's grandpa who picked his grandchildren up from the scene.

Johnson said Bright was looking down and accessing a map when the crash occurred around 3:15 p.m. because she didn't have a voice-activated GPS device. The car she was driving was totaled. The air bags deployed, causing a nose injury.

"Both of her knees also hit the dash and were injured," Johnson said.

Bright was the lone occupant in the Honda.

Johnson said the speed Bright was driving when the collision occurred is under investigation.

Most of the damage to the bus was limited to the rear bumper.

"A lot of times bus drivers won't even feel rear-end accidents, but he and the kids felt the jolt this time so it hit hard," said Darrell Rickard, Lakeland's transportation supervisor, who responded to the scene. "There were definitely some bumps and bruises."

Some students waited inside the bus after the crash while their families responded to pick them up. Others were evaluated and consulted by emergency responders in a yard on the west side of Highway 41.

Rickard said the bus had just made its first stop after school when the accident occurred.

Rickard said the last time a Lakeland school bus was involved in an accident was two years ago. He said it has been at least 15 years since a Lakeland student has suffered serious injuries as a result of a bus accident.

"Thank God nobody was seriously injured," Rickard said about Thursday's crash. "Having the kids scared was bad enough."

Traffic on Highway 41 and Lancaster was delayed during the investigation. Multiple ambulance crews and responders from the Northern Lakes Fire District and Rathdrum Police assisted ISP at the scene.

Another crash about a half mile south of the car-bus accident was reported on northbound Highway 41 around the same time.

"It looked like a woman was injured in another rear-ender," said Coeur d'Alene's Janet Haworth, who was driving southbound on Highway 41.

Traffic lights at the intersection of Highway 41 and Lancaster are slated to be installed in 2020, but Rathdrum officials are lobbying to have the project expedited due to safety concerns, especially with the Kootenai Technical Education Campus and now North Idaho College's technical facility open on Lancaster.

Johnson said that, while lights are needed at the busy intersection, it's questionable whether the signals would have prevented Thursday's crash.