I bet he was drunk and stupid.
I don’t think it’s scandalous that he just got his licence 6 months ago. These people have to get experience somehow. His lack of competence should have been glaringly obvious, though.
Were they all white children on the bus?
I still haven’t heard what his religion is.
I would sue the school system into oblivion for gross negligence. This goon was obviously not fit from his damned hair due.
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TV network news reported that the driver said, “Are you ready to die?” Just before impact.
“According to the police report, he was heading into a blind curve and hit an SUV when he crossed over into the oncoming lane to maneuver the bus around the bend.”
Perhaps I am hallucinating, but I imagine a school bus takes just about the same route every day. Every_single_day. So, OK, the blind curve was equivalently blind on every one of the 40+ school days driven so far.
Secondly, any such “blind curve” is on a fairly quiet residential street; not a 45-50 mph semi-thoroughfare. I have heard reports that this bus was split in half by the collision. He must have been ripping in that thing.
Prosecuting the guy isn’t going to bring the dead children back, but I kind of doubt the injuries & deaths would have been so bad if he wasn’t going awfully fast.
Add Protected Class immunity and it's even better.
Waiting for the "he's a gay tranny" revelation.
When I saw his picture I was stunned.
That’s what they hired to drive young children???????
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” The mother of the bus driver charged with vehicular homicide in five children’s deaths insists her son was not at fault and that the crash was ‘God’s will.’ “
“Earlier on Tuesday, Mateen said that the last words Walker said to the children before he sped around a curb and crashed the bus, were reportedly: ‘Are y’all ready to die?’
‘My daughter said, right before the bus flipped, that he was speeding around the curb, and asked them, ‘are y’all ready to die?’’ Mateen told CBS News Radio.”
I just got my CDL (commercial license, needed to drive a bus) last month. Now I’m scared as hell to take a “big yellow” on the road. Thanks, folks.
From what I can tell about the accident, he was driving just too damned fast. He had to be moving at a good clip to both roll the bus onto its side THEN slide into a tree hard enough to break the bus in half. Stupid.
And as for that “look who they’re hiring” crap, most bus companies are desperately shorthanded and they’ll take almost any drug-free individual with no criminal record who walks through the door. Decent part-time job with easy hours, kids. A lot of my co-workers speak Spanish, which doesn’t bother me one bit.
What are the Black Box read outs ?
Dat ain’t da prallum. Look at the piece of shit. Dat’s da prallum.