Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, December 10, 1994 TAG: 9412120036
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
None of the pupils on the bus nor the bus driver was injured.
State Trooper T.C. Chattin said Marshall Foley and Sean Bethel, 17-year-old students at William Byrd High School, will be charged with reckless driving as soon as paperwork can be completed in the courts, probably Monday.
Chattin said Foley and Bethel were heading east in Stewartsville about 8 a.m. when Bethel pulled in front of Foley in the left lane. Both cars were traveling 60 to 65 mph in a 55 mph zone, the trooper said.
Trying to avoid Bethel's car, Foley slammed on the brakes and skidded into the back of the school bus, which was parked with its flashers on in the right-hand lane. Foley's car was demolished when it struck the right rear of the bus; the car's windshield was just inches from the bus. Bethel kept driving.
Foley was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for slight abrasions and released.
The bus was carrying eight pupils at Stewartsville Elementary School and had just stopped to pick up another. The child who was about to board the bus ran away as Foley's car approached, said Tom Paramore, transportation supervisor for Bedford County public schools.
It was the sixth, and worst, crash involving Bedford County school buses since September. No Bedford County bus drivers were found at fault in any of the accidents.
by CNB