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Get RSS Feeds From KIROTV.com A pole sliced through a bus in the Puyallup School District, south of Seattle on Monday, missing a student by just inches.

One of the metal gates that block off the parking lot at Emerald Ridge High School suddenly began to swing shut, piercing a hole right through the front of an approaching bus. Normally, those gates are chained and locked via padlock in the open position during school hours, but one had not been locked.

A wind gust then started to close the gate right as a bus filled with junior high school students was turning the corner into Emerald Ridge High School. The gate went about 6-8 feet inside the bus, narrowly missing the driver and pinning one student into her seat.

That student was injured enough to be taken to Mary Bridge Hospital in Tacoma, but she is going to be okay. One other male student was slightly injured and the bus driver was able to escape injury.

School district officials said they were amazed and thankful it wasn't much worse.