Kentucky State Police said the crash occurred Thursday afternoon on U.S. 79, four miles north of Guthrie.
The police report identified the fatality as 45-year-old Dale M. Cherry of Bowling Green. Cherry was a passenger in a pickup truck that passed a Todd County school bus and then went out of control as the driver pulled back into the northbound lane to avoid an oncoming vehicle. The investigating troopers said the truck, driven by James E. Coleman of Bowling Green, hit a tree, came back onto the roadway, sideswiped the school bus and overturned. Nineteen students, the driver and a monitor on the bus escaped injury.
