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Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 06:39 PM Jun 2015

School Bus Driver Texting While Driving ..Caused Fatal Crash..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/06/tennessee-bus-driver-texting-crash_n_7523012.html

June 5 (Reuters) - The driver of a Tennessee school bus that crashed in December, killing two students and a teacher's aide, had been receiving and sending texts before the crash, police said on Friday.

The driver, James Davenport, who was among the more than two dozen people injured in the crash, died as the investigation was nearing a conclusion, Knoxville police said in a statement.

Davenport died on Monday, local media said, quoting the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

The investigation determined that Davenport "was driving while distracted due to sending and receiving text messages," Knoxville police said. "Multiple text messages had been sent and received during the time leading up to the crash."

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You know, you can't make this s**t up.
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School Bus Driver Texting While Driving ..Caused Fatal Crash.. (Original Post) Stuart G Jun 2015 OP
After the Sept. 2005 march in DC, the bus driver kept coming too close to vehicles in front of us, Mnemosyne Jun 2015 #1

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
1. After the Sept. 2005 march in DC, the bus driver kept coming too close to vehicles in front of us,
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 08:59 PM
Jun 2015

swerving for no observable reason, all in the pouring rain. I finally looked closer at him, in the dark bus, and saw the sob was texting!

I jumped right on it, no one else seemed to notice, but I was in the front seat behind the door. When I confronted him about it he claimed that his company had told him to text because there was no cell phone reception on the route from DC to Meadville, PA. He actually had the nerve to tell me that!

He was better the rest of the trip, and as he had terrified me several times on the trip already; it was not a good trip.

I called the bus company the next day and told them what had happened. They emphatically denied telling him to drive while texting. They fired him, apparently someone else had noticed, not spoken up on the bus and called in with same story a few days later.

I'm not sure how many were on the bus, size of a coach bus, but he endangered many lives that night. I always wondered how many times had he done it before and is he still?

This article is enraging! People dead and hurt from an asshole's actions.

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