A Greene County school bus driver has been cited for failure to yield the right of way in a fatal collision with a compact car on fog-shrouded U.S. 11E at Chuckey Ruritan Road on Monday morning.

The collision, which took place amid heavy fog, killed the car's driver, Paul Hammett, 29, of Blackberry Lane, Afton. Hammett formerly lived on Conklin Road in Jonesborough.

THP Director of Public Affairs Mike Browning, to whom questions about the fatal collision were referred by investigating troopers, said school bus driver Ronald Jennings, 64, of Denver Bowers Road, Chuckey, was cited for failure to yield the right of way in connection with the collision that killed Hammett.

However, Browning stressed that heavy fog, which blanketed the area of the accident on Monday morning, contributed to the collision.

The accident took place, according to the THP, as the school bus attempted to cross the northbound lanes of U.S. 11E from Chuckey Ruritan Road and was struck in its left rear by a Honda Accord that was being driven north on U.S. 11E by Hammett, according to a THP dispatcher.

After the collision, the Honda crossed the median of 11E, traveling a distance of about 350 feet before coming to rest against a guardrail beside the southbound lanes of 11E, according to the THP.

Hammett died at the scene of the accident, emergency personnel said.

Of the 38 students aboard the school bus none was seriously injured, according to the THP.

However, four students were transported to Laughlin Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released.

The school bus was said to be carrying students bound for Chuckey Elementary School, Chuckey-Doak Middle School and Chuckey-Doak High School.

The uninjured students were transferred to another school bus to complete the journey to their schools.

Volunteers from the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad freed the trapped driver's body from the wreckage of the car after he was determined to be deceased.

Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services, the Tusculum and Limestone Volunteer Fire Departments, the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad, the Greene County Sheriff's Department also responded to the accident scene.

Trooper David Good, members of a THP Critical Incident Response Team and the THP's Criminal Investigation Division conducted an investigation of the fatal collision.