Chattanooga Fire Department assistant chief Tracy Arnold confirmed “multiple” children were killed in Monday’s bus crash on Talley Road.
Speaking to media outside Woodmore Elementary School just after 6 p.m., Arnold could not immediately confirm the names or ages of those who were killed. The bus carried 35 students.
At least 23 students were taken to hospitals after
the bus ran into a utility pole and overturned.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/308991-multiple-children-killed-in-tennessee-school-bus-crash/Was it a tornado?!
Nope.
It was an idiot...
Parents. come on, man?! If you're bus driver looks like Snoop Dog...ya might want to drive the kids to school yourselves!!!
He had to be going way too fast and crazy to impale that bus like that!
UPDATE: Bus driver Johnthony Walker, 24, has been arrested and charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher during a news conference this evening at 11:30 p.m. Standing near the site of the Woodmore Elementary bus crash on Talley Road, Fletcher said five children died on the scene.
Fletcher said he could not say if any fatalities occurred at Erlanger hospital, and added that the driver may face additional charges in coming days.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash and the Chattanooga Fire Department was involved in extricating victims who were trapped on the bus.
The Hamilton County Department of Education confirmed there were 37 Woodmore Elementary students on board the bus. Their grades range from kindergarten to fifth.
Of the students involved in the crash there were five confirmed fatalities, six critically injured, six admitted to hospitals but not critically injured and 20 treated and released by local hospitals.
The Hamilton County District Attorney's office reported one additional fatality at a local hospital.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/nov/21/school-bus-crashes-talley-road/399032/Sad. Prayers for the families and friends of the victims.