Bus driver arrested for setting fire to buses with children on board

WEST VALLEY CITY, UT – A former Utah school bus driver, Michael Austin Ford, 58, is facing both federal and state arson charges. Ford is accused of setting his school bus on fire twice while dozens of children were on board. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah reports that Ford, a 25-year veteran of the Granite School District, was indicted by a grand jury in February. He was detained last Friday following …

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Grandma killed by school bus driver

QUEENS, NY – Tragedy struck in Queens on Friday morning when a 73-year-old woman was fatally hit by a school bus shortly after dropping her grandchildren off at school. The Bronx native, identified as Maria Rodriguez, was attempting to cross 86th Street, when the accident occurred around 7:30 a.m., according to police and the lady’s family. Reportedly, Rodriguez was struck by the bus as it was making a left turn from 107th Avenue in the …

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School bus monitor charged in choking death of disabled child

A school bus monitor in New Jersey has been charged with manslaughter and child endangerment after allegedly failing to notice a disabled 6-year-old girl being suffocated by a seat belt. The incident occurred when the bus hit bumps on the road, causing the child to slump in her wheelchair and the harness to tighten around her neck. The monitor, Amanda Davila, was charged and appeared in court. Amanda Davila, a 27-year-old resident of New Brunswick, …

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Three masked teens rush school bus with gun and attempt to kill 14-year-old student

In a truly terrifying incident, three masked teenagers attempted to murder a fourteen-year-old on board a school bus in Maryland on Monday afternoon. Martin Diggs, the head of the bus drivers’ union in Prince George’s County described it as an attempted murder, and the victim’s mother expressed her outrage at the suspects, calling them cowards. An investigation revealed that it had been an extremely close call: one of the teenagers had pointed the gun at …

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Intoxicated School Bus Driver Crashes Injuring Nine Students

Police in D.C. charged a bus driver with driving while intoxicated after he crashed into a ditch, injuring nine children returning from a field trip. Fairfax County Police said Troy Reynolds, 48, of Centreville, Virginia, was returning students and adults from Cox Farms to Murch Elementary School in Washington when he went off the road. After hitting a rock, the bus’s rim bent and the tire flattened, carrying 44 children and four adults. After he …

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19 Children and 2 Adults Killed In School Bus Crash

A truck smashed head-on into a school bus on a South African highway Friday, killing 19 children and two adults. A dashcam video shows the truck driver illegally passing another truck over a double line on a two-lane highway outside Pongola before crashing into the bus. After initially fleeing the scene, the driver turned himself into authorities after being charged with culpable homicide and negligent driving. The children who died were between the ages of …

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