Alleged DUI driver hits car, school bus, flees

State troopers say students were getting off a school bus near McLoughlin Middle School on Wednesday when a drunken driver crashed into the rear of a car, knocking it into the rear of the bus.

The driver then accelerated away, police say.

No students were hurt, but a woman in the rear-ended car was.

Witnesses followed the hit-run driver as he sped away in a 1995 Nissan Quest, troopers said.

Minutes later, Stephen Leroy Oury, 36, crashed the minivan into a carport in the 200 block of Southeast 96th Avenue, according to a bulletin from the Washington State Patrol.

Oury, a Vancouver resident who was unhurt in the three crashes, was arrested on suspicion of DUI, felony hit-run driving and misdemeanor hit-run driving, officials said.

Wednesday night, Oury was in the Clark County Jail on $5,750 bail, a jail employee said. He is to appear in court today.

The series of incidents surfaced about 2:25 p.m., the bulletin said, when Oury crashed the van into something in the parking lot of a church at MacArthur Boulevard and Devine Road in the McLoughlin Heights area.

He allegedly drove away and, headed east on MacArthur, crashed into the rear of a 2000 Audi driven by Frances Foley, 54, of Vancouver and fled.

The impact knocked the Audi into the back of the bus, which sustained minor damage. The Audi was totaled.

Foley suffered neck pain. She was treated at Southwest Washington Medical Center and released later Wednesday, a hospital employee said.

John Branton: 360-735-4513 or john.branton@columbian.com.