do you remember this horrific school bus crash 2 years ago?

Bus company at fault for not firing the bad driver.

 

I do remember that! Because right away, everyone blamed the truck driver, the media was researching the dump trucks safety record. Then when it was discovered that the school bus made a U-turn on the highway, and the media didn't try to crucify the school bus. But a very very sad story.

 

I thought of 3 other awful bus crashes when I read the title of the post. I hadn't even heard of the one here. It would be nice if the local guvment's would pay actual professionals to drive our children around. Glad mine walk to school. I tell them to watch out for school buses!

 

This is the worst one Texas ever had. 31 years ago last Monday. September 21, 1989.
This time the truck driver was at fault but got off. Huge controversy when trial was going on.

 

I have driven trucks on and off for forty years and have never had an accident in any vehicle and my last moving violation was in a car twenty seven years ago.
How did this guy get hired to transport children.

 

It was a bad deal when it happened. Word on the “street” is the driver got Hoffa’d. No one has been able to locate him since then.
Texas passed some laws down here in the aftermath. One was requiring every school bus and beverage distributor truck trailer to have a white strobe light on the roof. I think they have slowly adopted that nation wide at least on busses. Also. Blue Bird started putting bigger windows and added emergency exits on the sides and escape hatches in the roofs. Any one that has ever done any loads down in the Texas valley knows what the strobes look like on the beverage trucks.

 

Pays to run a dash cam in many ways.

 

You are absolutely right! I have 3