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TexasTowelie

(117,361 posts)
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:15 AM Mar 2017

Bus driver in fatal Woodmore crash faces more charges

The man arrested in connection with the Woodmore Elementary School bus crash that killed six children faces more charges after being indicted Wednesday by a Hamilton County grand jury.

Johnthony Walker, 24, was indicted on six counts of vehicular homicide, four counts of reckless aggravated assault, one count of reckless endangerment, one count of reckless driving and one count of use of a portable electronic device by a school bus driver.

He will be arraigned March 24 before Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole.

Defense attorney Amanda Dunn said Monday during a hearing to freeze a dozen civil lawsuits against Walker that prosecutors planned to present her client's case to the grand jury this week. On Wednesday, she declined to comment on the indictment.

Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/mar/09/driver-fatal-woodmore-crash-indicted-six-coun/416725/

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Bus driver in fatal Woodmore crash faces more charges (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
I don't know what his story is but Skittles Mar 2017 #1
From the charges, it looks like he was distracted by his damned phone Warpy Mar 2017 #2
You're right; subsequent lawsuit said cellphone. Kittycow Mar 2017 #7
Some hot rod bus driver took an unauthorized twisty road Kittycow Mar 2017 #3
well obviously something is wrong with him Skittles Mar 2017 #4
I got the impression at the time he was just a punk. Kittycow Mar 2017 #5
dreadful Skittles Mar 2017 #6

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
2. From the charges, it looks like he was distracted by his damned phone
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:32 AM
Mar 2017

Those fucking things need to be off when people get behind the wheel.

Mythbusters did that one, yacking on a cell phone is at least as dangerous as driving drunk.

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
7. You're right; subsequent lawsuit said cellphone.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 04:56 AM
Mar 2017

I went back and looked it up. He also had an earlier accident where he sidewiped a car with the bus he was driving.

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
3. Some hot rod bus driver took an unauthorized twisty road
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:34 AM
Mar 2017

Last edited Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:00 AM - Edit history (1)

and careened through it, and yelled out "Are you ready to die today " before he crashed the bus. There were a lot of parent complaints about his reckless driving previously.

This is just off the top of my head from following it when it happened.

Edited to correct quote.

Skittles

(160,142 posts)
4. well obviously something is wrong with him
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:39 AM
Mar 2017

I wonder if he has had a mental health evaluation

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
5. I got the impression at the time he was just a punk.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:52 AM
Mar 2017

Like the town trouble maker who never should have been hired to begin with. I think he had a bad driving record. I also think he wore headphones while driving the bus. Kids would come home and tell their parents but the people in charge never did anything about it.

My memory sucks on the details but I was following it on a truckers forum since my husband's a trucker.

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