51 students taken to hosp after bus is hit by other kids driving to school.

[powderman]

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/JCPS-hospital-bus-crash-mustand-frost-middle-school--171769671.html
 
51 JCPS students taken to area hospitals after bus accident       by Amy Stallings  WHAS11.com Posted on September 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM
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Gallery  See all 21 photos »  School bus accident                 Map data ©2012 - Terms of Use       38.0960208 -85.8932076  View larger map  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Police and emergency crews have cleared the scene of a Jefferson County Public Schools bus accident near the Greenbelt Highway.
 
JCPS officials said bus #1250 was t-boned on Lower River Road at Moorman Road by a red Ford Mustang that had three Butler High School students inside. Apparently, the vehicle slid through a stop sign, crashed into the bus and caused the bus to flip onto its side around 7 a.m. Friday morning, causing the bus to flip on to its side. JCPS originally reported the vehicle as a truck, but WHAS11's Brooke Katz has confirmed the vehicle that hit the bus was a red Ford Mustang.
 
Forty-eight students were aboard the bus headed for Frost Middle School. Officials said all of them were transported to area hospitals as a precaution, but six of those student did sustain significant, non life-threatening injuries and they were take to Kosair Children's Hospital.
The three high schools students from the Mustang were also transported to the hospital.  All of the injuries are reported to be non life-threatening.
 
JCPS officials said the bus driver refused medical treatment.
JCPS COO Michael Raisor addressed the public at 11:30 a.m. and said Frost Middle School is operating normally.
 
He said emergency responders and JCPS staff acted professionally in a situation that could have been a tragedy.
"EMS assessed the situation, provided JCPS a list of student names and at that point JCPS began notifying parents," Raisor said.
Raisor said they will have counselors on hand Monday for students.
WHAS11 will have continued coverage of Friday's accident during the evening newscasts.

[powderman]

Kids driving to school has been a pet peeve of mine for many years. When I was in high school only those with after school jobs or drs appts were allowed to drive, we rode the buses. Today they provide parking lots that cover as much area as the whole darned school.
 
Looking at the parking lots I see that 90 % or more are driving better vehicles than I can afford. How many kids are paying for their fancy rides?? Dunno but I'd say very few. Everybody wants their children to have the good things in life, but don't just hand it to them, make em earn it.
 
Quite often kids are killed driving to or from school, several dead within a few miles of me. The hwy by the local elementary school is often clogged with folks dropping off or picking kids up, once again, ride the darn bus. A 15 and 16 yr old were killed a few yrs ago, daddy bought her a new car, had license less than a week, like the one this morning, ran stop sign, both drt. 2 winters ago a friend was killed along with her children taking her kids to school, hit a truck headon,  RIDE THE DARN BUS. POWDERMAN. 

[powderman]

News just said the kids were driving an est 70 mph in a 45 mph zone when they ran the light and tboned the bus. Some are still in the hospitol. POWDERMAN. 

[Sourdough]

When I was a kid back in the 60s, all the boys got jobs so they could buy a car and drive to school.  Even the rich kids fathers refused to give them a car.  The girls all got cars from Daddy.  Since the boys had to work for their cars few did things stupid to damage that car they had worked so hard for.  Seems all the wrecks in the school parking lot were girls, crashing into each other.  Sometimes rummer had it that it was no accident.  My girl friend inheriated her Mom's old 1956 Buick.  My buddy's sister was driving a hot new 1966 Mustang compliments of Daddy.  The Mustang was totaled, the Buick needed a new bumper and tail pipe.  My buddy's sister Marcy still cares a scare on her upper lip from that wreck.  I think of that wreck every year when I go to Florida and see Marcy's scar on her lip.  I mentioned it once, and Marcy got mad all over at Theresia (My old girl friend).  Thresia had no right to stop at the exit to the parking lot, that stop sign should not have been there anyway.

Yet we did lose one of my senior classmates.  He had bought a 57 Chevy.  He had driven into Madison and on the return trip he hit another car at over 110 MPH.  Three of the four in the Chevy died.  One survived.  the elderly couple in the Cadillac he hit suffered minor injuries.

When it was reported the bus was rolled onto it's side, I knew the vehicle that hit it was traveling at a high rate of speed, or was a big vehicle.  School buses are designed to absorb impact with little damage, and usually no damage to the passenger compartment.   When I drove a school bus I saw a car crash into the side of a school bus.  Only sheetmetal damage to the bus.  Car had significant damage.

[powderman]

ROG. The mustang was a mangled mess, the bus rolled several times. 6 or 8 kids are still in the hospitol. The kids shoulda RODE THE BUS. Seems to be a prestige thing to drive to school instead of riding the bus, and parents let them. POWDERMAN. 

[DANNY-L]

I agree with ya powderman and what else bugs me is by law school buses have to have seatbelts but the student aren't required to wear them,why not?