UPDATED: Bus Driver Cited In Accident
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Posted: 10:16 AM Oct 14, 2008
UPDATED: Bus Driver Cited In Accident
Twenty three students went to the hospital Friday morning after the driver said she swerved to avoid a dog.
Reporter: Heather King / Bill Wilson
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Havelock, NC (WITN) - A bus driver who troopers said swerved to avoid a dog in the road has now been cited by the Highway Patrol.

Latera Newby was charged with failure to maintain lane control. Newby was driving a bus last Friday that ran off the road and flipped over in a ditch.

Twenty three students from Roger Bell Elementary School in Havelock went to local hospitals to be checked out.

No word yet whether any disciplinary action was taken against Newby by the school system.


Original Story

Twenty three students from Roger Bell Elementary School in Havelock were taken to area hospitals Friday morning after their bus flipped over.

Dispatchers tell WITN the bus, headed to Roger Bell Elementary School in Havelock, hit a ditch on Fisher Town Rd. at 7:29 a.m. Friday. The bus turned on its side.

The Highway Patrol says the bus driver swerved to avoid a dog in the road and ended up in the ditch.

Casezell Martin was preparing to put his two young grandchildren on the bus when he heard the crash. "We were standing at the door me and my two grand kids when i heard skids on the highway and then a tumble."

Martin says he walked down the road to see his grand kid's school bus flipped on its side. "I was like oh my God, I thought maybe some of them just hurt bad, but thanks to God they did not," he said.

Troopers tell WITN that none of the students were seriously injured. Eleven students were sent to Craven Regional Hospital and twelve to Carteret General Hospital. .

An East Care helicopter dispatched to the scene was called off, the Havelock Police dispatcher said, because it was not needed.

School officials say all parents whose students were on the bus have been contacted.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Friend of a Parent Location: Harlowe on Oct 18, 2008 at 08:49 AM

What is the school system doing about this?
Posted by: Grandparent on Oct 17, 2008 at 04:08 PM

Are they just going to sweep this under the rug? That's what it seems like. Something else needs to be done. I don't want the bus driver to lose her job, but more action should take place. My grandchild is still afraid and to all that think otherwise...it isn't an act!
Posted by: Concerned Resident Location: Havelock on Oct 17, 2008 at 05:29 AM

I think that someone needs to check out the lame charge that the bus driver got.

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