Moment speeding school bus driver swerves off the road and into mobile home with kids on board in rural South Carolina
New footage shows the moment a school bus left the road and crashed through a mobile home in rural South Carolina.
A video released Tuesday by Greenville County Schools shows the moments leading up to the April 15 crash.
The bus turns into the grass on the right side of the road and corrects left, plowing into a yard, taking out a fence and a mailbox.
The vehicle only comes to a stop after crashing through the wall of a mobile home.
An angle from inside the bus shows the driver falling from her seat after the bus enters the yard, losing control.
Footage released by Greenville County Schools shows the moment a South Carolina school bus driver overcorrected and crashed into a mobile home
There were two students on board at the time of the accident, but they were not injured. The driver no longer works for the district
Another angle shows the two students on board being violently displaced by the impact.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported and no one was in the home at the time of the accident.
A district representative confirmed the driver is no longer employed by Greenville County Schools.
According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the driver was traveling west on Stamey Valley Road, near the small town of Travelers Rest, when she rounded a curve and went off the road. She got a ticket for speeding.
Video from inside the bus shows the vehicle plowing through a fence and taking out a mailbox before crashing through the house
The South Carolina Highway Patrol cited the driver for speeding
In September, a fatal accident sparked a national discussion about school bus safety.
Two adults were killed and six high school students were left in critical condition after a charter bus toppled off an embankment in New York state.
The bus was transporting students to band camp when it left the roadway, tumbled into a 50-foot ravine and came to rest on its side.
Governor Kathy Hochul described the incident as “a day of terror” for the four adults and 40 students on board. She said a defective front tire “likely contributed to the accident.”
In the aftermath, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Pat Ryan pleaded with the Federal Highway Administration for help in building an emergency vehicle-only access road.
They said the bus crash was evidence of the lack of access for emergency responders and noted that the crash was just the latest to occur on that stretch of the busy highway.