Posted on 01/25/2020 12:59:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Covington Catholic High School students are back in the news after a charter bus carrying a group of students and chaperones was involved in a fatal accident on its way back from the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. One person was reportedly killed and several more injured in the collision that took place Saturday morning.
(Via WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
According to witnesses on the scene, a southbound car somehow entered the northbound lanes of the highway, striking the charter bus head-on.
"I saw a car come across the median and head toward me," said Ricky Lynn, a witness who was also driving north. "I was able to get out of the way."
The driver of the wrong-way car was pronounced dead at the scene. That driver's name has not been released.
Two people on the bus were taken to area hospitals for treatment, and others suffered minor injuries. The motor coach driver suffered a minor knee injury, the bus company said.
The bus was full of Covington Catholic High School students and several parent chaperones, who were returning from the March for Life rally in Washington. The bus was one of four in a caravan, carrying a total of about 200 passengers.
The front passenger side of the bus was badly damaged in the crash, and the children onboard used emergency exit windows to escape.
Parents say a priest with the Archdiocese of Covington was also among the caravan, and performed a final blessing over the driver of the car killed in the crash.
At the March for Life rally in 2019, a group of students from Covington Catholic High School were taunted by members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, a black supremacist hate group. The Catholic students were subjected to racist and homophobic remarks for over an hour before a Native American activist approached the group of students as he loudly banged on a drum. When one of the students, Nicholas Sandmann, donning a Make America Great Again hat, simply smirked in response to the activist beating his drum loudly in the child's face, various left-wing media outlets and figures smeared the student as a "racist" and made other disparaging attacks.
Earlier this month, CNN settled a multimillion-dollar defamation suit with Nicholas Sandman. The student's attorney said in a recent interview that his team also has pending lawsuits against NBC and The Washington Post, with plans of adding other news outlets, such as ABC and CBS, as well as HBO host Bill Maher and CNN anchor Reza Aslan as additional defendants.
I would say investigate the driver, probley connected to the leftists somehow.
Sad the oncoming driver was killed but glad it wasn’t one of the students.
While I see a lot of value in school trips, I might skip the next one if I went to that high school.
I live on this road (10 miles from accident). This is most dangerous road I know of. Head on collisions happen with scary regularity. 75% of them are drowsy or asleep at the wheel, perhaps DUI. Anyone trying to develop some conspiracy could not be more off base.
Yeah...how do they know the bus driver wasn't wearing a MAGA hat and deliberately took out a dem?.../chortle....
You should see the stupid ones coming from our side on the other thread.
How sad for everyone involved. It’s a dangerous world out there.
It sounds like they were within a half hour of arriving at their destination when this happened, right?
Just out of the blue. I do not believe in happen chance
The driver of the oncoming car was banging on a drum.
Was he riding in a “mustang”?
They mention a median, but it looks like a 4 lane road with no median or cables?
Not relevant to this case but to highway safety, one thing I’d never thought about is to not be the “lead” driver on a 2-lane highway - if there is someone you can drive behind, they would take the brunt of a crossover head-on accident rather than you.
That’s about right. I live 10 miles east of the crash site. Since I’ve lived here(25 years) the stretch from today’s wreck to 10 miles east of me has seen at least 25 fatal crashes, 90% head on. Its very dangerous stretch of highway.
*rme*
It sounds like they were within a half hour of arriving at their destination when this happened, right?
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It has been said that most accidents happen within 10 miles of the house.
Yogi Berra moved.
Back in the 1980s there was an accident involving a car going the wrong way on I-71 (about halfway between Covington and Louisville) which hit a school bus--I think more than 20 students were killed. The driver, who was drunk, survived.
Of course a bus returning from Washington to Covington would not have traveled on I-71, but at least only the person who caused the accident died in this case, none of the children on the bus.
There is a marker on I-71 where the accident took place.
Pretty sure that was a very famous attorney from a family of judges in Cincinnati, iirc...….he might STILL be in a nursing home......can’t remember his name, but I would know it if I heard it.
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