Six-Year-Old Killed by School Bus Identified

In my book, HOW OLD IS TO OLD TO BE A BUS DRIVER, Is this being looked at as something like this happens every year.

PINE RIVER, Minn. - Cass County authorities have identified the six-year-old boy killed by a school bus in Pine River Monday afternoon as Evan Lindquist of Pine River.

Authorities report the boy had just gotten off the school bus at his rural Pine River home one mile southeast of Pine River on Hassman Hill Road when he was struck by the bus.

The school bus driver was identified Tuesday as 74-year-old Westal Maine of Pequot Lakes.

Officers from the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Pine River Police Department, Minnesota State Patrol, and Pine River Fire Department responded to the scene.

The accident is still under investigation.

This is too sad... I don't know if the driver's age contributed to this or not. It could have just been a case of the driver NOT paying attention to the child getting off the bus. In any case, the driver needs to be fired and charges put against him. Prayers are sent from Ohio to the family....

Age has very much to do with this, i listen to the news all the time whether it be tv or radio and i hear this happening all the time across the states, 95% of the time it is a bus driver that is above the age of 60. Now if there going to allow grand parents to drive the bus that picks up the grand children, then they need to have ex-stream testing to make sure that this crap don't happen.