Special Needs Bus Involved in Accident with Second Bus
Two Gwinnett County, GA busses were involved in an automobile accident that injured the driver of one bus and 10 students complained of back pain. None of the children were seriously injured in the accident. The incident originally occurred when 2 busses were parked waiting for children to board.
A third bus then failed to make a stop and collided with the back of the second bus. One of the busses involved in the accident was carrying two special needs children at the time. The two children in the school bus accident were uninjured but the driver and the monitor in the bus both complained of injuries. However, they refused medical attention when medical personnel arrived. The driver of the third bus was given a citation for following too closely to another vehicle.
One of the most important details of this report is that the children were uninjured in this auto accident. Incidents of people not following proper safety precautions on the road occur all the time, but when a driver is providing transportation to children in a school bus, it is imperative that they take extra precautions. If the children in this accident had been injured, the driver that was following too closely could have been held liable for the accident and would have faced much harsher penalties besides a citation. In addition, the driver could have also faced a lawsuit from the children’s parents for any injuries their children had suffered in the accident. Special needs children require much more care and safety than other children; therefore this incident could have been more serious than it actually was.
