Posted by Charm_AL on 11/20/06 2:04pm
Msg #161271

OT: thanks for the calls

guys.
We had a school bus from Lee HS that avoided another car on the entrance ramp to
I- 565. Just up the road from us. Unfortunately it went over the side and nose dived thirty feet down onto Church street. Two fatalities and about 23 kids in the hospital, four critical. All kinds of injuries from lacerations to broken bones.
They were on their way from the school to the tech center. It's contolled chaos now, and I don't know anyone that was involved. Send your prayers for the kids and their families.
Thanks again

Reply by Charm_AL on 11/20/06 2:20pm
Msg #161273

another of the critical just died.

Reply by ColleenCA on 11/20/06 2:27pm
Msg #161277

Gosh, I am tearing up as I ready this. Of course my thoughts and prayers are with all of those involved and in the community. Such young lives taken away. I will never understand something like this. Be well.

Reply by Bonnie_CO on 11/20/06 3:08pm
Msg #161285

Our prayers are with the kids and thier families. What a horrible thing to happen!
I don't understand why drivers anymore do stupid stunts around school buses!
Friday my 8 & 10 yr old were on the bus home from school when some IDIOT flipped a U-Turn in front of the bus causing the bus driver to hit the brakes and swerve, then the dumb a** driver flipped the bus off and took off. Had to call our volunteer fire dept, 3 ambulances and the cops, had 1 child with head injuries, one with a severly injured back, (at first they thought she had broke her back), and several with minor injuries and possible concussion. I wanted to hunt the driver of the car down and strangle him, and I'm NOT normally a violent person!
God bless the kids that were involved in the accident near you!

Reply by Charm_AL on 11/20/06 5:09pm
Msg #161304

thanks guys...

It is so sad around here today, prayer vigils everywhere, churchs
opening, parents confused, some don't even know yet and kids that have
no ids can't notify parents. Parents showing up at the hospital, not
knowing what happened, only to get a cell call that their kid drove
with someone and was fine.
The whole town is devastated, even my favorite news reporter kept
losing it as he was in shock. CNN got ahold of it and family and friends
are calling all day.
I can't keep the tears in...one of the girls that died at the scene lived
thru a brutal experience, she was shot in the face 2 yrs ago by her
boyfriend and fought to live, went back to school, rehabilitated
herself and was 19 with child. gone.
Speculation has it that another
student that was driving cut the bus off in an effort to 'race' to the
tech center. Not confirmed yet.

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 11/20/06 3:57pm
Msg #161294

Your community will stay in my prayers... How devastating.