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| Submit Page | Submit loss of child in a school or activity bus related event to: "IN LOVING MEMORY." Please indicate child's Name, Age or Grade, School, City, State, Transportation Provider and Date at time of loss. Also, please include a Newspaper or Television Station that carried the story, and the address (http://) of your WEB page. If you don't have a WEB page and would like to make one Geocities will help with providing free WEB page space. Geocities also has a free on line PageBuilder -- if you're not experienced at making a WEB page their page builder will convert your normal typing into HTML code. If you are not on the Internet we will help find someone to host a free page at their WEB site. Click Here for an actual example of what might be presented on a loving memory page. | Year 2008 |
| Arizona | GOODYEAR-BASED AZCON CONCRETE, Goodyear: Daniel Powell's (33) caution put him directly in the path of a tractor-trailer coming up from behind and, his family says, likely saved the lives of the students on a school bus. Powell steered his empty cement truck behind a school bus, patiently waiting as the bus stopped to pick up students along a meandering western Arizona highway. He never tried to pass the bus. Instead, he parked at every bus stop and left a wide cushion between his truck and the school bus. A truck hauling pipes struck Powell's vehicle, flipped it on its side and crushed Powell. He died at the scene. Reports said it's likely the tractor-trailer would have struck the school bus if Powell's cement truck had not been there. No Salome High School students on the school bus were injured. MEMORY PAGE. | 09/24/2008 |
| Arizona | TUCSON HIGH SCHOOL, Tucson: Sophomore Kevin Barajas-Robinson (15) was killed when he was hit by a school bus. He was bicycling to school when the bus passed Barajas-Robinson, who was riding on a white-and-red mountain bike. The bus stopped at the red light while Barajas-Robinson continued to ride up alongside the bus. According to a complaint, the bus turned right without a turn signal. The on-board video camera showed the bus hitting Barajas-Robinson. He was thrown to the ground and crushed under the bus, whose right rear tire came to rest on his body. The 47-year-old male bus driver was transporting three Amphi students, ages 8 and 9, were on the bus at the time of the incident and were transported to school on another school bus while the bus was taken out of service for police investigation. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 09/12/2008 |
| California | MONTEVIDEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, San Ramon: Daniel Pan (11) coined a brainy, sweet fifth-grader was on his way home from school when he rode his bicycle into the path of a small bus and was killed. Daniel was just a half-block from home when he rode his bike down a curb and cut into the path of the15-passenger bus. Witnesses said the bus stopped at a stop sign and then turned right onto the street. Tall hedges at the corner make it difficult to see bicyclists, neighbors said. There is no stop sign from the side of the intersection the child was traveling. The bus, owned by MV Transportation of Fairfield driven by a 48-year-old driver, was carrying a couple of developmentally disabled people. Nobody in the bus was hurt. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/23/2008 |
| Conneticut | DURHAM SCHOOL BUS SERVICES, Waterbury: A 2-year-old boy was killed on a Friday afternoon when a school bus struck him in the bus company's parking lot. The mother of the boy, a bus driver, left her five children in a parked bus while she walked to her personal vehicle around 4:30 p.m., police said. She planned to drive up to the bus and transfer her children to the vehicle. While she was away, the youngest child left the bus and walked into an adjacent parking spot. Another school bus was backing into the spot and hit the child. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 10/31/2008 |
| Florida | APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Tallahassee: Ronshay Dugans (8) was killed when the school bus she and 27 kids were riding to a Boys and Girls Club was hit by a concrete truck that overturned onto the bus's rear. Ronshay died from head injuries. Twenty kids had minor injuries; six went to the hospital and were later released. The truck driver (24), was charged with vehicular manslaughter and multiple counts of reckless driving. The Boys & Girls Club in Tallahassee's south side dedicated its dance room in memory of Ronshay. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 09/05/2008 |
| Florida | WALTON COUNTY: A 46-year-old bicyclist Roxie Lynn Blackmon was killed when her bike crossed the painted white fog line and collided with a Walton County School District school bus. (Blackmon) suffered massive head trauma and was killed instantly. The school bus was caring three children on board, none of which were injured. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 01/30/2008 |
| Georgia | TUCKER MIDDLE SCHOOL, Atlanta: Olivia Hayes (10) was struck as she boarded her school bus. Police say the school bus was stopped with lights flashing to pick up Olivia. The 49-year-old ttruck driver tried to stop but slid on wet pavement into the bus and the girl. The ruck driver was charged with vehicular homicide, a felony, as well as driving too fast for conditions, failure to maintain lane and overtaking a school bus, reports said. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 08/27/2008 |
| Illinios | BLOOMINGTON: An unidentified 42-year-old Bloomington woman died a few hours after being struck by a Unit 5 school bus. Authorities say the woman had just stepped off a southbound Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System bus and apparently didn't see the school bus coming in the other southbound lane. Police say the school bus driver tried to swerve to avoid the woman. The only student on the school bus was not hurt. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 02/28/2008 |
| Illinios | McHENRY: Robert Belletynee (66) collapsed and died while on his way to pick up students. He was driving east on Illinois Highway 120 when they saw him slump over the steering wheel. The bus crashed at Crystal Lake Road. Belletynee was pronounced dead at Northern Illinois Medical Center in McHenry. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/29/2008 |
| Illinios | NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Rockford: Miguel Carreno (9) while crossing the street on his way to his school bus stop was struck and killed by a bus on another route that had turned left on the same street. Police believe the boy walked into the roadway into the path of the bus. A 27-year-old Rockford School District bus driver and 20 children were on the bus when the bus struck the child. No one else was hurt. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 11/03/2008 |
| Indiana | EMINENCE SCHOOL CORP., Eminence: Jimmy Stierwalt (73) died when his bus crashed on the way to a state police bus inspection. Police say the bus went off the road at an intersection near Eminence, about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis. Stierwalt was alone on the bus when it knocked down a utility pole and struck a tree. Stierwalt had been a driver for the Eminence School Corp. for 40 years. A Morgan County Coroner said it is possible that Stierwalt suffered a medical problem before the crash. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 06/23/2008 |
| Indiana | TWIN LAKES SCHOOLS, Monticello: Four students, 10-year-olds Trevor Ingram and Tyler Geiger, nine-year-old Kale Seabolt and five-year-old Lauren Melin, died when a school bus carrying special needs students was sideswiped by a dump truck, flipping the bus on its side and into oncoming traffic where it was struck on the roof crushing the children by a second dump truck. The students attended two elementary schools in Logansport. The Pharos-Tribune said the driver of the school bus was the only survivor on the bus. All of the children and the driver on the bus were restrained with a seat belt or child safety seat, however, the State Police determined the impact was too severe for the restraints to save the children. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 09/26/2008 |
| Kentucky | PENDLETON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, Falmouth: Daniel Wood (16) was killed and 10 students and both drivers were injured when a dump truck owned by XXL Trucking apparently hit a dip in the road and crashed into a Pendleton County school bus. The Dump Truck swerved and crossed the double-yellow line, hitting the side and back of the eastbound school bus causing the crash. A review by the Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement agency found eight safety violations for XXL Trucking, according to the Kentucky Enquirer. None of the four trucks was periodically inspected. It didn't appear that there was anything wrong with the truck involved in the crash. A study of the road by Charlie Myers, retired chief district engineer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's office in Fort Mitchell, found serious safety issues with the road, and many of his recommendations were implemented. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/01/2008 |
| Kentucky | SYMSONIA: Keeton Mathis (5) was hit by his half-sister's school bus as he crossed the road in front of his family's house. Redmon says the boy was crossing the street after going to the mailbox. Students from Graves County High School and Graves County Middle School were on the bus, which was dropping off Keeton's half-sister. Family members recalled a smart, funny, inquisitive child who loved the movie "Annie." Keeton just turned 5 and was going to have a party that weekend with friends at Lakeland Gymnastics. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 03/06/2008 |
| Maryland | MONTGOMERY BLAIR HIGH SCHOOL, Montgomery County: Honors student Tai Lam (14) was killed in an unprovoked shooting on a crowded bus by a 20-year-old member of a notorious street gang and an illegal alien. Police charged the man with first-degree murder, after he allegedly shot a handgun into a crowded bus after exiting, striking and killing Lam and injuring two other teenagers. The gang member along with three to four other individuals, reportedly got into a verbal altercation with a large group of teenagers before leaving the bus. Tai's 16-year-old brother, Cao, was on the bus at the time of the shooting and says there was no dispute with his brother and that the gunman was unprovoked. "It was like he was ready to shoot anybody." NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 11/01/2008 |
| Massachusetts | AMHERST: Abraham Espinoza (2) waiting at a bus stop with his mother and older sister was struck and killed by a school bus while seeing his sister off to Mark's Meadow Elementary School. The toddler was killed when he ran out into the street and was hit by the bus, his father said. Abraham was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no students on the bus at the time of the accident. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 09/30/2008 |
| Massachusetts | KANE ELEMENTARY, Marlborough: 5-year-old Darnell Cob died on the school bus in front of his classmates when he choked on metal paper fastener he'd swallowed. Schools often warn of the danger when eating food and other items in the mouth and many enforce 'nothing in the mouth' while riding the school bus. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. (See Article: Danger: Food found on the school bus) | 01/30/2008 |
| Michigan | L'ANSE CREUSE HIGH SCHOOL, Harrison Township: Jordan Vandeputte (17), Robert McGuire (17), Nicholas Noble (17) died in a four-vehical crash involving a school bus. Chesterfield Police Department said four teenagers were in a 1996 Dodge pickup when it crossed lanes and slammed head on into a New Haven Community Schools bus. The three teens who were killed were passengers in the pickup. The school bus was empty except for the 54-year-old bus driver, who was not visibly injured. Horseplay, road rage was the apparent cause. Passengers of two vehicles allegedly were throwing pop cans at each other. Both teen drivers of the two vehicles involved in the horseplay were charged with three counts of manslaughter with a motor vehicle. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 04/08/2008 |
| Minnesota | LAKVIEW SCHOOL, Cottonwood: Hunter Javens (9), Jesse Javens (13), Emilee Olson (9), Reed Stevens (12), died and at least 14 people were injured.when a van driven by an Illegal Immigrant that failed to stop at a stop sign hit a school bus carrying 28 students. Authorities said the van driver did not have a driver's license and was using a false identity. The van driver was charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 02/19/2008 |
| Minnesota | PELICAN RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOL, Pelican Rapids: Jessica Weishair (16), was killed when the charter bus that was carrying a Pelican Rapids High School band went onto its side and slid into a ditch. The students had performed Friday in Chicago over spring break and were to return to the school Saturday morning. The State Patrol said some of the students had arms and legs pinned under the bus. Rescuers spent hours freeing them. 17 people were taken to the hospital; 15 were treated and released, and two others were transferred, including one in critical condition.. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 04/05/2008 |
| Montana | HUNTLEY PROJECT after school care program: A 7-year-old girl was killed, (not identified), after ejected through a side window when the school bus she was riding collided with a pickup truck east of Worden. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash happened at a highway intersection east of Worden when a bus stopped at the stop sign started to turn left onto the highway and in to the path of a pickup, which was pulling a gooseneck trailer loaded with gravel, hit the front right corner of the bus. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 04/21/2008 |
| New York | STANLEY G. FALK SCHOOL, Buffalo: A 26-year-old pregnant school bus aide suffered the loss of her unborn child after she was assaulted by a student on a bus. The incident began while the bus was at an intersection when the student punched the aide in the head and kneed her in the stomach several times. The assault continued for about 10 minutes until the bus reached the school. School personnel came on the bus and assisted the victim in controlling the attacker, police said. The aide, who was nine weeks pregnant, sought treatment at Sisters Hospital following the assault but the fetus died. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 03/03/2008 |
| New York | FULTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Fulton: Brenda Phillips (51) a bus driver for Golden Sun Bus Services of Oswego for more than five-years, later died at University hospital after she suddenly fell from the stairwell of another driver's bus as the drivers were waiting for the students to be released from classes. The driver told police that he was taking Philips to her bus. As he drove around a circle area slowly, somehow, Philips fell through the door, hitting her head on the pavement. Witnesses said the bus was moving slowly and that the door was closed. The aisles of most NY school buses have a white line, near the driver, designating the area where no one should stand while the bus is moving. During the 2005-06 school year 38 school bus drivers were injured on the job, according to Education Department figures. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 01/16/2008 |
| New York | FRANCIS LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL, Queens: Honor student Jasmine Paragas (14}, was hit and killed by a school bus on her way to morning class. Jasmine had left home walking with her mother until Jasmine crossed the street and was struck by the bus The bus was making a left turn onto and Paragas was crossing along the crosswalk. The driver of the bus was issued three summonses by police -- two for equipment failure and a third for failing to yield to a pedestrian. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 12/04/2008 |
| N. Carolina | GUIFORD COUNTY: Carla Wilson (22), a Guilford County substitute school bus driver hired in August 2007 who was in critical condition after her bus overturned Dec. 10, 2007, later died at Kindred Hospital in Greensboro. The school bus Wilson was driving hit a mailbox, crossed the road and hit a ditch. Troopers said Wilson was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. The bus was traveling below the posted speed limit of 40 mph. Six students heading to Southern Elementary suffered minor injuries. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 02/15/2008 |
| N. Carolina | SEDGEFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL, Charlotte: Shcrissony Potts (13) died after she rode her bike into the side of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school bus taking students home from school. Police said a tractor-trailer blocked the bus driver's and Shcrissony's view. The bus had a green light, and that from all indications, the bus driver didn't have time to avoid the collision. Six students from the Morgan School were on the bus at the time of the crash. The driver of the bus and six passengers were not injured. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/23/2008 |
| Pennsylvainia | PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, South Whirehall Township: A Lehigh Valley school bus driver Harold Moyer (78) died after being run over by a school bus driven by a colleague. According to police, Moyer was walking past the garage bays as one of the school buses began to back out. The impact knocked Moyer to the ground as the bus partially ran over his body. Paramedics rushed the veteran driver to the hospital, where he died a short time later of massive blunt force injuries. Moyer worked at Parkland for 26 years. He started his career there in 1982 as a plumber. In 1992, he began driving a school bus for the district. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/16/2008 |
| Pennsylvainia | ST. GEORGE SCHOOL, Erie: Beverly Schneider (52) apparently had a heart attack shortly before a crash happened about 3:25 p.m., and was pronounced dead at Saint Vincent shortly after her arrival. Erie Bureau of Fire Lt. Charles Campbel said he believed Schnieder knew something was happening to her and purposefully directed the bus up 40th Street, where the bus hit a snowbank, a parked truck, swerved and hit a sign, and ended up at the bus's resting spot straddling two front yards on the north side of West 40th Street. None of about 2 dozen students on board were hurt. Beverly worked for the school for about three years. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 03/14/2008 |
| Texas | CHANNELVIEW ISD, Channelview: Linda Kaminski (52), who had a history of heart disease, died of a heart attack after collapsing on route. She was transporting 14 students to Harvey Brown Elementary School and Alice Johnson Junior High when after applying the brakes at a stop sign she passed out and drifted through an intersection. After the bus jumped a curb and came to a halt a seventh-grade girl, whom school officials did not identify, pushed a button for the emergency brake and called 911 for help. Kaminski knew all her passengers by name and had watched some go from elementary to high school the nine years she drove school bus. Her bus, No. 71, led her funeral procession. 2safeschools Note: ''Heart attack risk starts at 20'' ~ Bio-Medicine. About 38 percent of people who experience a coronary attack in a given year die from it. The longer a person lives after a heart attack, the closer the person comes to having a normal lifespan.'' ~ AHA Statement 12/30/1999. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 01/24/2008 |
| Texas | CARY MIDDLE SCHOOL, Dallas: Martin Alverado (14) who apparently jumped from the back of a Dallas County Schools bus moving about 20 mph, hit his head and died the next day (03/21) at a local hospital. Investigators said the students on the bus were acting rowdy and the driver distracted by the unruly children decided to return to the school because they would not listen to her commands for them to behave. The students continued to act up and one of them opened the back emergency exit door and jumped out. The bus driver said she heard the buzzer sounding the opening of the back door, but by the time she was able to pull over, the child had already exited the rear of the bus. There were four students on the bus at the time of the incident and there were no other children injured. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 03/20/2008 |
| Texas | SAUCEDA MIDDLE SCHOOL, Donna: Humberto Alcabal (11) was taken to McAllen Medical Center, where he later died. The school bus he was riding was struck by a Ford F-150 after the woman driver lost control, rolled several times and crashed into an electric pole. The pickup burst into flames killing the pickup driver and her three year old son. The downed electric pole then struck the Donna school bus. At one point the truck hit a sign, which flew into the passing Donna ISD school bus. Humberto was struck in the head, and died at the hospital. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 03/14/2008 |
| Texas | BLEYL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Houston: Nicole �Lilly� Lalime (13) had just exited her school bus when she was killed by a hit-and-run driver. She'd just gotten off the bus to walk home. The 30-year-old driver first struck the school bus, then lost control of his car, hitting the girl. He then allegedly took off and tried to hide his car. Police found and arrested the driver who was charged with intoxicated manslaughter. Her parents said their daughter did not want any presents for Christmas this year. Instead, she asked her parents to send that money to an organization that drills wells for fresh water in communities around the world that might not otherwise have access to it. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 12/16/2008 |
| Utah | WEST POINT ELEMENTARY: An 8-year-old Davis County boy (not identified), was killed when he fell under a school bus and was run over by its rear wheels. The bus driver had dropped off a few children, including the boy who was run over, and waited for a clear intersection before proceeding. Witnesses said the boy crossed the street, but then changed directions and ran near the bus in a spot the driver couldn't see him. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 01/23/2008 |
| Virginia | CHARLOTTE COUNTY: State Police think Phyllis Pollard (57) had a medical emergency and died before she crashed her bus with 32 students aboard on their way to Central Middle School. Students say she seemed to pass out just before the bus went off the road. Seven students had minor injuries. Pollard was a very loved school bus driver who had been driving for a number of years - eight years driving the same route. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 05/07/2008 |
| W. Virginia | WYOMING COUNTY SCHOOLS, Wyoming County: A school bus driver for the county school system Robin Perkinson (43) was cleaning her bus after the last day of school when she was shot seven times and killed by her husband. Sheriff's deputies say her husband shot Robin Monday night on the bus before he turned the gun on himself. Police say the man somehow managed to walk across the highway into his home where he died. The apparent murder-suicide took place in Ikes Fork along U.S. Route 52 near the McDowell County line. The county's policy permits bus drivers to take their buses home if they live along their regular route. Robin had worked as a school bus driver for the county for three years. She drove elementary, middle and high school students in the Hanover, Ike's Fork and Cub areas. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 06/09/2008 |
| Canada | BATHURST HIGH SCHOOL, Bathurst, N.B: Nathan Cleland (17), Justin Cormier (17), Daniel Hains (17), Javier Acevedo (17), Codey Branch (17), Nickolas Quinn (16), Nicholas Kelly (15), an elementary school teacher Elizabeth Lord (51), all died in a van crash carrying a Bathurst high school boys' basketball team home from a game in Moncton, N.B. The force of the collision tore off the rear and a large piece of the passenger side of the large 15-seat van, and ejected benches and people everywhere. They were only five minutes from waiting parents when the van fish-tailed on a slippery highway and slammed into a tractor-trailer. Elizabeth Lord's husband, Wayne Lord, the team's coach and the driver of the van, was among four survivors. The truck driver wasn't hurt. NO MEMORY PAGES FOUND. | 01/'12/2008 |
| Canada | RIMBEY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Rimbey, Alberta: Jennifer Dawn Noble (17) died at Edmonton hospital after a gravel truck had slammed into her school bus, crumpling the back and side of the bus into a twisted sheet of yellow and black metal and hurtling it into the ditch along a central Alberta highway. The bus was rear-ended while it was stopped in heavy fog at the side of the road at a railway crossing northeast of Rimbey. Police said the crash involved the bus, an SUV that had come to a stop behind it, and a gravel truck that hit both vehicles. Jennifer was sitting in the back of the bus. Students riding the bus ranged from elementary to high-school age and were on their way to three different schools in Rimbey. Const. Bill Coulthard, lead investigator for the crash, said the truck driver would not likely have been able to see the school bus lights earlier because of the fog, but the final collision analysis isn't expected for weeks. MEMORY PAGE. | 04/09/2008 |
| Archives | PLEASE NOTE that the 2safeschools archives do not cover all the school bus related deaths in those years. A yearly sampling is provided for instructors and bus drivers to use in updating training and policy development. 1450 people were killed in school bus related accidents from 1990 through 2005. Of these fatal accident victims, 67 percent were the occupants of other vehicles involved in the school bus accident, 25 percent were pedestrians or bicyclists, and nine percent were passengers in school bus-type vehicles. 40 school bus drivers have died in bus crashes between 1993 and 2003. Hundreds of children have died over the past decade, students who were in the process of going to and from their bus stop, getting on or off their bus or while riding their school bus. Over 400 children the past twenty years have been run over by their own school bus at their bus stop. Information and memory links are collected and added to the archives as found by 2safeschools members or provided by helpful visitors. In Loving Memory Submission Page | n/a |
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