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Monday, December 8, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA Union County school bus driver died Monday after a collision with a garbage truck in Waxhaw. The crash occurred around 3 p.m. on New Town Road near Waxhaw Indian Trail Road when the driver of the garbage truck crossed the center line on a curve and collided with bus #334 head-on. The driver of the bus, Timothy Jerome McManus, was pronounced deceased at the crash site. McManus had worked for the school district for three years. The driver of the garbage truck was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. No children were on board the bus at the time of the crash.
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Monday, November 17, 2014A car being pursued by Robeson County deputies crashed into a school bus, killing the four people in the car in Lumberton Monday morning at about 10:15 in the 2900 block of Wire Grass Road, south of Lumberton. No students were on the Fairmont High School bus. The people in the car were suspects in a breaking-and-entering case. We'll update this story as more information becomes available.
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Friday, September 12, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCThe driver of the pickup truck was taken to the hospital. A total of five students were on board the bus at the time of the wreck on their way to Merrick-Moore Elementary and Glen Elementary, Durham Public Schools officials said.
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Thursday, May 8, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA high school teacher died Friday when his car smashed into a school bus on U.S. 401 South near Lillington.
State troopers said William Neil Parnell III, a teacher at South View High School in Hope Mills, was following the bus when the driver stopped near Stockyard Road to let off the last student from Lillington-Shawtown Elementary School.
Troopers said Parnell did not brake and plowed into the back of the bus.
Parnell, who was heading home to Lillington from work, died at the scene. No passengers were in the car.
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Monday, April 7, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA Wake County school bus was involved in an accident at Louisburg Road and Fox Road just south of I-540 in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon.
Pictures from the scene appeared to show a Dodge pickup truck rear-ended the bus.
In all, six people were injured -- five students and the bus driver. Four were taken to WakeMed North and two to WakeMed pediatrics. All injuries appeared to be minor.
School officials said there were about 24 students from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences High School on board.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCEleven people are being treated for injuries after a school bus from Rowan County was involved in a crash in south Charlotte on Friday.
According to MEDIC, the bus crashed along the 5700 block of Providence Road around 11 a.m. This is near Shalom Park.
Eleven people are being treated for injuries. Most of the injuries are considered to be minor.
The students were from Rowan County and were on a field trip to the Jewish Community Center (JCC) when the crash occurred.
The bus driver backed up the school bus and hit a wall. No one was seriously injured in the crash.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCThe North Carolina Highway Patrol says eight students were on a bus headed to Nashville Elementary School when it overturned around 7:30 Wednesday morning.
It happened on Boddie Mill Pond Road a mile west of NC-58 in Nash County.
Troopers said the bus driver reported he had problems with the vehicle's steering system and he could not keep it under control.
The bus went down an embankment and overturned in a ravine.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014A Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school bus with more than two dozen students on board was involved in a collision Wednesday morning.
The two-vehicle collision happened around 6:50 a.m. at the intersection of West Clemmonsville Road and Ebert Road. No one was injured.
Bus #472 was going south on West Clemmonsville Road when an SUV ran a red traffic light and hit the bus, Winston-Salem police said. The SUV driver was cited for a stop light violation.
The bus was carrying 26 students at the time of the collision.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCSeveral students were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries early Wednesday after a wreck involving a school bus near McGee's Crossroads Elementary School in Johnston County, State Highway Patrol officials said.
Forty-eight students were on the bus at the time of the wreck, which happened at about 8:15 a.m. near the intersection of Greenleaf Road and N.C. Highway 50.
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Monday, March 17, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCFour people were taken to the hospital after an accident involving a school bus Tuesday, according to Medic.
The wreck happened around 2:30 p.m. near the intersection of Summit Avenue and Mint Street in Uptown Charlotte.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School officials said the bus, number 1305, was transporting students from Performance Learning Center.
Medic told WBTV that three patients were taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Main, and that one patient was taken to Novant Presbyterian Hospital after the crash.