Parent Says Tennessee School Bus Driver Asked Kids If They Were ‘Ready to Die’: Report

a reply to: Christosterone

I would wait for the school bus camera video before making any assumptions, I feel lawyer manipulation for the upcoming lawsuit against the district.

He is still has some guilt since no school bus should be driven in a manner that endangers the kids, but If video shows those were his words, then he needs to rot in jail or get the needle...

Up in Minnesota a woman, apparently suicidal, attempted to hang a toddler before driving away from the daycare she worked at, to jump off a bridge, the toddler is safe and she is in custody.

I think people's rational thoughts are being manipulated by a technology. Someone with power wants these things happening.

When I start seeing repeating patterns, I think manipulation.

Apologies in advance if this is repetitive but, the news states that he was involved in a minor wreck with a bus just two months ago by side swiping a car going in the opposite direction.

It is also stated that he received his CDLs in April of this year so maybe he is not very experienced?

www.wrcbtv.com...

originally posted by: anotherside

When I start seeing repeating patterns, I think manipulation.

Like breakfast?

I would like to go on the record as saying that the question that I wouldn't ask before was....
Is the bus driver a Muslim?

Throw stones at the Islamophobe, but that is what I was wondering.

He deserves the electric chair. That is all. He deserves A LOT worse, but, the electric chair is a good start...

Also, School buses don't have seat belts because? Look at all these school bus incidents where children are flung around. Yeah, ya think a CHILD TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE would have them...

originally posted by: Kromlech
He deserves the electric chair. That is all. He deserves A LOT worse, but, the electric chair is a good start...

Also, School buses don't have seat belts because? Look at all these school bus incidents where children are flung around. Yeah, ya think a CHILD TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE would have them...

They're designed not to have them. They wouldn't be any safer with them on.

bus seatbelt

originally posted by: tigertatzen

originally posted by: Kromlech
He deserves the electric chair. That is all. He deserves A LOT worse, but, the electric chair is a good start...

Also, School buses don't have seat belts because? Look at all these school bus incidents where children are flung around. Yeah, ya think a CHILD TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE would have them...

They're designed not to have them. They wouldn't be any safer with them on.

bus seatbelt

I beg to differ. Kids wouldn't be flung around like rag dolls if SAFETY/SEAT belts were installed. You tell the parents of THESE children that seat belts are "unnecessary." How much common sense was thrown out the window when the bright idea came up to exclude them? Physics ALWAYS wins:

Really hope it doesn't boil down to someone acting out so horridly. If so that sounds like he'll be tried along the lines of pre meditated capital one- six counts of it, death penalty?

Updates:
Drugs and alcohol not involved in the crash.
A sixth child has passed.
No criminal record.
Looking into fatigue as a cause.

Based in Warrenville, Illinois, Durham operates about 13,700 vehicles across the U.S. and has nearly as many drivers, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The company has had 346 crashes over two years, including three resulting in deaths and 142 with injuries, federal figures show. During that period, it had 53 incidents involving unsafe driving violations.

Sounds like a lot of issues, wonder how it comes to other bus driver companies? Maybe they are having problems with hiring the right people for the job.

Source


Sending regards

Times Free Press

Just an update if anyone is interested. His lawyer may be able to fight the 'use of a cell phone' charge, IMO.
I don't believe the video has been made public and if it has, I haven't seen it.
Closure still long away for the parents and loved ones.

Johnthony Walker, 24, was indicted on six counts of vehicular homicide, four counts of reckless aggravated assault, one count of reckless endangerment, one count of reckless driving and one count of use of a portable electronic device by a school bus driver.

had no drugs or alcohol in his system at the time, police said.

video footage taken inside the bus showed Walker with his phone out while the bus was stationary. When children boarded, he put it away, she said. Officer Joe Warren, who responded to the scene Nov. 21, countered that the phone just went out of view — it wasn't clear if Walker had actually put it away.