Parents were heard screaming, “That’s my baby,” CNN affiliate WTVC-TV reported.Ī National Transportation Safety Board team is expected to arrive in Chattanooga on Tuesday morning, Chairman Christopher Hart told reporters. Some were visibly injured and crying.ĭistraught parents rushed to the site, searching for their kids.
The children at the accident scene looked shell-shocked. “And we then hit a mailbox, then we flipped over and hit a tree real hard.” “He was going real fast and he hit a garbage bag,” the boy said. One of the children who was on the bus told CNN affiliate WDEF-TV that the bus was traveling at high speed just before the crash. Twenty-three victims were transported to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga and one was taken to another hospital, the chief said.įletcher said the bus, which was carrying students in kindergarten through fifth grade, turned over on its side and struck a tree. Emergency officials worked for “many hours” to remove all the children from the bus, Fletcher said.
“This is something that you’ll never get over … but we’re just doing what we can and reaching out and offering words of comfort and support to the families.”Īuthorities received a call about the crash just before 3:30 p.m. “There are no words that you can say,” Kelly said Tuesday morning. “There are still some unanswered questions at this time, but our priority remains with our students,” Kelly said Tuesday morning, adding that counselors would be at the school for anyone who needs to talk. Walker has been cooperative and talking to investigators, police said. He could face more charges as the case proceeds to a Hamilton County grand jury, Chattanooga police Chief Fred Fletcher said. The bus driver, Johnthony Walker, 24, has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Six students remain hospitalized in the intensive care unit, and six are in regular rooms at the hospital, Kelly said.Ī spokeswoman from the Hamilton County district attorney’s office earlier released a higher death toll, saying at least five children had died on the scene, and one had died at a hospital. Of the five children confirmed dead after the Monday afternoon bus crash, three were fourth-graders at Woodmore Elementary School, one was a first-grader and one was a kindergartner, according to Kirk Kelly, interim superintendent for Hamilton County Schools. “The most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child.” We are again dealing with an unimaginable loss,” Mayor Andy Berke said Tuesday morning. “Five is a cursed number in our city right now …. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Īuthorities have arrested the driver of a school bus that flipped onto its side, slammed into a tree and split apart, killing at least five children in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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