A Missouri second-grader crashed into his school bus and another bus in front of an elementary school while the driver was trying to give safety instructions to children.
Parents of students on two buses outside Three Trails Elementary School in Independence, about 10 miles from Kansas City, said their children had “minor injuries” inside the school on the morning of October 17th. He said he received an email saying that he had been involved in an incident. fox 2 now.
One of the buses reportedly “slowly plowed into another bus on school grounds,” but the school said a student was at the helm of the large transport vehicle when the minor accident occurred. He is said to have leaked information.
Fox 2 Now reports that 7-year-old Alana Chafen was called to the front of the bus by the driver to teach children how to open doors and windows and what to do in case of a medical emergency. It is said that he was giving instructions.
Chafen said she and the other students on the bus were asked to volunteer to help with class, but when no one wanted to volunteer, the driver called her to the front to help and sat her in the driver's seat. It is said that
“She told me to press it, and when I pressed it, the whole bus backed up. Then I pressed the gas button and out of nowhere it stopped,” Chae-hwan told the media. told.
Her sister, Amiyah Brown, a second-grader who was on the bus at the time of the incident, said a minor collision occurred while her sister was behind the wheel, but the driver barely reacted.
“When the incident happened and we crashed into the back of the bus, she didn't say anything and just walked back and parked the car as if nothing had happened,” Brown said.
However, Ambrosia Holt, the girl's mother, said her daughters told her that Chafen was in the driver's seat at the time of the accident, but that her daughter, not the driver, caused the collision between the two buses. He said he did not tell his daughter about this. .
“I was shocked. It was actually my child who was asked to take the wheel of the bus,” Chafen's mother, Ambrosia Holt, told the magazine.
No one was injured in the incident, and the school told parents the day continued “as usual,” but Holt wondered why elementary school officials never told her that her daughter was involved. They also questioned whether they were not informed about the safety guidance. It was happening.
“Even if I didn't know they were putting their kids through this, I'm sure there are other parents out there who don't know. That's my biggest thing…because like I said, , because this could lead to something very big,'' Scheffen's mother told the outlet.
The next day, other parents told the media that this was the first they had heard of the crash involving their students.
“I don't like it when my child is on the bus and A) is expected to help the driver or B) is on the bus with another child who is driving. '' says a parent of an elementary school student. , Sheila Harrison told the outlet.
The Independence Police Department told the report it had not been informed of the collision.
It is not yet known how the bus took off while a student was behind the wheel or if the district is investigating the school bus driver.
