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During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.
Towner, Colorado, was served by the two one-room school houses, one for grades 1-6 and the other for grades 7–8. Two school buses, one for the east side and one for the west side, took the students to and from school. The east-side bus was a 1929 Chevrolet truck modified and driven by farmer and bus driver Carl Miller.
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.
Just after 3:30 p.m., [1] Dykes boarded a Dale County school bus that was stopped in Midland City and told the driver that he wanted to take two children, six and eight years old, both boys, [4] from the bus. The school bus driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland, Jr., refused to let him take the children and challenged Dykes to shoot him. [4]
In the 13 days since Miami-Dade public schools started the new school year, more than 11,500 drivers have received citations thanks to the district’s new camera system that catches and fines ...
The bus reached the Trailways station in Anniston about one hour after the Greyhound bus had arrived in the city. While the bus driver, John Olan Patterson, spoke to some police officers, the Riders nervously bought some sandwiches from the whites-only lunch counter. They were served, although the other whites in the waiting room averted their ...
"Forgiveness only hurts the person that is unforgiving," she said. "It doesn't hurt the other person and I didn't want to open that door for the enemy to come in and have bitterness -- no, I don't ...
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.