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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Wed Dec 3, 2014, 12:26 AM Dec 2014

Three dead in crash of school buses in TN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/02/us/tennessee-deadly-school-bus-crash/index.html?c=homepage-t

The crash happened in Knoxville.

From the article:

(CNN) - Three people, including two young girls, were killed when two school buses crashed in Knoxville, Tennessee, officials said Tuesday.

Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch told reporters the children on the bus were in kindergarten through third grade. An female aide on one bus was killed in the accident, which occurred at about 3 p.m.

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Three dead in crash of school buses in TN (Original Post) shenmue Dec 2014 OP

How old were the drivers. Quite a few years ago, we were in shraby Dec 2014 #1

My district had the opposite problem: octogenarian bus drivers Recursion Dec 2014 #2

shraby

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1. How old were the drivers. Quite a few years ago, we were in

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 01:37 AM

Dec 2014

N. Carolina and they allowed teenaged school bus drivers and wondered why their school bus accident rate was so high.
Shortly before we left someone posed the thought that maybe they should pay them more and get older adults to drive the buses...Duh...ya think?

Recursion

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2. My district had the opposite problem: octogenarian bus drivers

Reply to shraby (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:10 AM

Dec 2014

There's got to be a happy medium somewhere around 40, right?

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