Posted on 04/26/2022 12:09:54 PM PDT by CedarDave
Video released by the Albuquerque Police Department this week shows the terrifying moments when a car crashed into a school bus, rolling it over onto its side, in late February.
An APD spokesman said at the time that 23 middle school students were on the bus and seven were taken to the hospital. Two of the children had serious injuries in their legs — one of which required surgery — and another child had a pelvic fracture which also required surgery.
The driver who police say crashed his white Ford Mustang into the side of the bus, 49-year-old Mario Perez, had a broken femur. He has been charged with two counts of great bodily injury by vehicle.
Police say Perez was racing a driver in another Ford Mustang he crashed into the bus at the intersection of Messina and Gibson SW, just west of Blake. That driver has not been found.
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If I had a kid on that bus, Perez would have more than just a broken femur.
Perez … street racing … New Mexico…
Must … not … jump …to … conclusions.
Geez... Forget the darned phone.
Albuquerque is a bleephole democRAT city.
I worked for a Congresscritter in 1984. One of his big issues was seatbelts on school buses. Everyone told him it would cost too much, kids wouldn’t wear them, etc.
Regardless, he brought it up whenever he could. It was the 80’s version of virtue signaling. See? He really CARES about kids!
Video like that makes me think he might not have been wrong.
Low IQ + high octane = a stupid explosion. I hope those kids recover without lasting injury. I also hope those two drivers get more than just tickets and fines.
I will admit to some testosterone induced stupidity when I was young, but by age 49 I had pretty much exorcised those troubles to way in my past.
And ONLY two charges?
Try and pass a school bus, with the sign out stating "ALTO", in my neck of the woods...
That issues pretty much died in Texas after the soda truck hit a school bus into a flooded chalice pit in the Rio Grande Valley.
Not sure if the safety concerns and technology have changed in the previous 50 years, but let one kid drown due to a jammed seat belt ...
He was wrong. It would have been a nightmare to have 30 kids hanging from seatbelts sideways, etc. And in a bus on fire, kids with seatbelts would take forever to evacuate.
The better war is those high padded seat backs, and loose kids.
It doesn’t resonate with soccer moms, but it’s a well established fact.
I’m surprised the kids didn’t all have seatbelts on, unless New Mexico is one of the few states that still doesn’t require them. I drove as school bus for eight years and was the biggest pain-in-the-ass seatbelt Nazi imaginable. I used to wonder why I bothered until one day in a quit residential neighborhood, a giant beverage delivery truck ran a stop sign doing about thirty-five miles per hour. It hit us square in the center and threw us across the street but the tree we landed against kept us from flipping over. Only injury was a little five year old girl with a concussion. Ironically, I had just stopped the bus about twenty seconds before for a spot check to make sure everyone was belted in tightly. All the parents were raving about my safety consciousness, the Board of Education gave me a special commendation letter and I was a hero for the month. It never occurred to me until several years after the fact, that if I hadn’t taken the time to stop and check, we would have been through the intersection before the errant delivery truck had arrived at that spot…
“…49 year old…” NOT 19 year old. Amazing.
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Sneaky SOB ain’t he.
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