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Speeding Tennessee school bus driver asked kids if they were 'ready to die' before fatal wreck
NY Daily News ^ | November 22, 2016 | Meg Wagner

Posted on 11/22/2016 9:30:21 AM PST by Zakeet

The Tennessee school bus driver charged in a wreck that killed five elementary school kids allegedly asked the students if they were "ready to die" as he raced down a narrow Chattanooga road, a parent said.

Johnthony Walker was speeding "well above" the posted speed limit and lost control of the bus before it flipped over and wrapped around a tree, police wrote in an arrest affidavit.

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Walker, 24, is charged with five counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of five Woodmore Elementary School students: three fourth graders, a first grader and a kindergartner. None of the children - four girls and a boy - have been identified.

Another dozen students remained hospitalized Tuesday morning, six of whom are in critical condition.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: accident; chattanooga; education; iohas; schoolbus; thugculture
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To: Grampa Dave

OMG! Did you have to fill my whole screen up with that face. :-)


61 posted on 11/22/2016 9:59:55 AM PST by Spunky
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To: Zakeet

Dumb bastard. He had responsibility for so many young lives, and he was trying to be cool, or whatever. If an AR15 killed 6 kids, they would scream to ban them. Can we ban idiots who look like this from driving?


62 posted on 11/22/2016 10:01:55 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Zakeet

From 2014, on accidents involving Durham School Services...

WMC Investigates: Shelby Co. Schools bus crashes

http://m.wmctv.com/wmctv/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:NrR7QOUn


63 posted on 11/22/2016 10:02:37 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: VTenigma

I taught at a rural school for many years. Several of the teachers also drove the bus. CDL license, training sessions with the highway patrol, criminal background checks, all required to drive a school bus in Missouri. One was involved in a wreck—not her fault—an asleep-at-the wheel driver crossed the center line and hit the bus. After all of the kids were evacuated and accounted for, she was tested for drugs and alcohol—SOP. I imagine each state’s requirements for school-bus drivers differs. I’ve heard that some states let high school students drive buses.


64 posted on 11/22/2016 10:02:57 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: WayneS

I hear he’s going to claim election stress, institutionalized racism as his defense..../sarc


65 posted on 11/22/2016 10:03:01 AM PST by Professional
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To: Zakeet

The poor families who’s babies won’t be coming home.


66 posted on 11/22/2016 10:04:52 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zakeet

This piece of $hit got the job only because of his protective pigmentation. The kids are dead, sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Their lives were worth less than the fake ideal of “equality”.


67 posted on 11/22/2016 10:05:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: mewzilla

Also from 2014, on Durham School Services...201 Poplar, BTW, is the county courthouse.

‘Hiring School Bus Drivers’ sign placed outside 201 Poplar

http://m.wmctv.com/wmctv/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:psqi4PvJ


68 posted on 11/22/2016 10:05:52 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: wardaddy

Could have been a 40 of the Bull ...

69 posted on 11/22/2016 10:06:46 AM PST by Zakeet (I haven't seen Democrats this pissed off since the Republicans forced them to free their slaves)
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To: mewzilla

Police: School bus driver involved in crash had no driver’s license

http://m.wmctv.com/wmctv/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:nBL5tZLM


70 posted on 11/22/2016 10:08:21 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Zakeet

Recent Muslim convert, or associate with Muslim converts?


71 posted on 11/22/2016 10:10:00 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Zakeet

The pictures of his five victims should be posted instead.


72 posted on 11/22/2016 10:10:01 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Zakeet

From 20 minutes ago...

NEWS
Bus company in Chattanooga wreck had more than 140 injury crashes in 2 years

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/11/22/bus-company-in-chattanooga-wreck-had-more-than-140-injury-crashes-in-2-years/94277286/


73 posted on 11/22/2016 10:10:37 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: hanamizu

A CDL bus endorsement is required in VT. I was chair of the school board in my area and we ran our own busses. A criminal background check was a requirement for any and all district employees Teachers, administration and staff.


74 posted on 11/22/2016 10:13:11 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Zakeet
Ho-Lee....

Isn't it the Left and Dems who oppose and scoff at the notion of asking PERSONAL questions AND checking on health records in the process of employment?

75 posted on 11/22/2016 10:13:21 AM PST by HangUpNow
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To: Zakeet
Another future astrophysicist career derailed. Because "racism."

58 days left for his visit to the WH.

76 posted on 11/22/2016 10:17:36 AM PST by HangUpNow
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To: Grampa Dave

Looks like Snoop Dogg’s son, with the same affinity for weed.


77 posted on 11/22/2016 10:18:10 AM PST by Scarpetta (ue)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
:-) I worked with a black gentleman named "Edward". He was working three jobs to put his kids through private school. Public schools in his neighborhood where about what you'd imagine. He also was extremely active in his church and tutored adult literacy courses, as he put it, "in his spare time".

I never asked him what he thought of names like Johnthony or TA'Hennesy. My guess is that he'd say that they're "fine names, and the people should be afforded all the same opportunities that anyone else would have". He was a far better man than me.

78 posted on 11/22/2016 10:19:21 AM PST by wbill
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To: Psalm 144

“Yes, he has that aura of reliability and integrity all around him.”...........

Guess your computer posted a different photo than mine did.


79 posted on 11/22/2016 10:19:51 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: bgill

Not to mention the 10 children in critical condition who may never be the same again.


80 posted on 11/22/2016 10:21:46 AM PST by Scarpetta (ue)
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