Students killed when bus plunges off overpass

[Slowd N Throwd 10+ year member]

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/bus.crash/index.html

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[pitbull12888]

i seen this on tv about a hour ago..2 dead

 

[Slowd N Throwd 10+ year member]

or if you dont want to click the link....

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (CNN) -- At least two high school students were killed when a school bus plunged some 30 feet off the side of a highway overpass Monday, according to school, police and fire officials.

The bus was carrying about 30 students.

Huntsville City Schools spokesman Keith Ward told CNN affiliate WAAY-TV that two students had been confirmed dead from the accident, citing information from school superintendent Ann Roy Moore. (Watch police work scene where bus crashed to ground -- :45)

Ward said he understood the driver survived.

It took authorities about an hour to transport all of the students to Huntsville Hospital, police spokesman Wendell Johnson said.

The emergency room became overwhelmed and some of the injured students had to be transported to Crestwood Medical Center, he said.

It is unclear how many of the students were injured. All were transported to the hospitals as a precaution.

Johnson could not release details on the students' conditions, but he said some of the injuries were life-threatening.

"It was a very chaotic scene and parents were just frantic," Johnson said.

The bus was carrying students from Lee High School to a technology center for classes, Johnson said.

It is unclear what caused the accident at the Interstate 565 overpass at Church Street.

"Huntsville has never seen an accident like this involving students," Johnson said.

He noted that the bus -- like nearly all school buses -- was not equipped with seat belts or air bags.

"The students, when they were hurled over the side of I-565 ... they were just tossed around inside the school bus," Johnson said.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Very minimal details given though...

I wonder why the bus went off the overpass to begin with?

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

blown out tire?

 

[LeofromtheH 10+ year member]

i always wondered what would happen if the bus i was on would ever crash considering there were no seatbelts.. cheap school districts

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

yeah they should have atleast seatbelts, the driver does.

 

[cpierce 5,000+ posts]

i always wondered what would happen if the bus i was on would ever crash considering there were no seatbelts.. cheap school districts

Yeah its bullshit they don't have to have seatbelts. In almost every state not wearing a seatbelt is against the law...but its ok not to have them for a schoolbus full of children...wtf?

 

[lsm 10+ year member]

Very minimal details given though...
I wonder why the bus went off the overpass to begin with?

They were reporting on the radio here that the bus was cut-off / ran-off the road by another driver...

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[LeofromtheH 10+ year member]

Yeah its bullshit they don't have to have seatbelts. In almost every state not wearing a seatbelt is against the law...but its ok not to have them for a schoolbus full of children...wtf?

exactly, i remember when i would ride the bus, kids would be jumpinall over the place. i guess they jsut entrusted the drivers to drive 'carefully enough'. thiking that they would never crash. they even had those cameras to catch fights on thebus, but couldn't put seatbelts on the god damn bus ?!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

How big of a hurry do you have to be in to cut-off a freaking school bus full of kids? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

you took the works right outa my mouth. as a former truck driver, it's nuts to cut off anything of the weight/size off. it takes a ton of room to stop a bus or truck when it's at highway speed.

As far as seat belts, i agree that they should have them. but what are you, the bus driver going to do to make sure they have them on correcty. high school kids know how, but what a bout 1st and 2nd graders. is the driver going to get up everytime and make sure they have it on and it's tighted correctly. that would double the transport time to and from scool.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

when i was in highschool there was a field trip where the driver fell asleep and caused the bus to over-turn on its side and drag a good distance, a couple of students ended up getting their faces+sides torn up and had to get some serious surgery

needless to say one of them (they were upperclassmen) told me he dosent have to work for the rest of his life because of the settlements

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I hope they find the person(s) that caused this and they are publicly castrated and skinned.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I hope they find the person(s) that caused this and they are publicly castrated and skinned.

I'll second that.

Anyone putting kids in danger because they're too much of an *** to wait another 12 seconds to get where they're going should be permanently removed from society.

 

[Paddywad 10+ year member]

For the ones that were lost, sincere condolences to their families! To the prick that cut off the bus, may he feel the pain!