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The school bus then ran into a ditch and fence, Cpl. David Jones with the S.C. Highway Patrol said in a news release. The SUV driver died at the scene of the Dec. 8 crash. The Marion County ...
The driver of a vehicle behind the school bus — identified by the Austin American-Statesman as 33-year-old Ryan Wallace of Bastrop — also died in the accident.
The bus driver who died in a horror car crash in Merseyside has been named as a father of two whose family claim "suffered medical issues behind the wheel” before the crash.. Stephen Shrimpton ...
The school bus involved in the accident was a 71-passenger school bus built by American Transportation Company (which was acquired by Navistar International at the time of the accident), and was owned and operated by School Districts 47 and 155 through a Transportation Joint Agreement. At the time of the accident, 35 students were on board.
The bus involved in the crash was a former school bus, configured with a bus body mated to a medium-duty truck chassis and frame. The 1977 model-year Ford B700 chassis was mated to a Superior school bus body. The vehicle was designed with a capacity of 66 passengers and a driver, including 11 rows of 39-inch wide seats, separated by a 12-inch ...
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The crash killed two people – 40-year old coach driver Stephen Shrimpton and 15-year-old student Jessica Baker. Preliminary investigations suggested that Shrimpton suffered a medical episode while at the wheel and that Baker was partially ejected from the vehicle and died from head injuries sustained from the wreckage landing on her.
A local middle school was subsequently named in honor of the deceased. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatal Accident Reporting System, the Alton crash was the sole school bus accident in the United States in the period 1979–1989 in which passengers died due to submersion-related causes. [1]