A senseless tragedy that could have been prevented had Pennsylvania had tougher restrictions on who can drive a school bus.From a story in The Mercury by reporter Carl Hessler Jr.:
A DVD supplied by the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office Monday showed images taken from cameras on a school bus that allegedly caused a fatal crash in front of Perkiomen Valley Middle School West. The video, labeled evidence A, showed Frederick Poust III turning in front of an oncoming car after going through 10 stop signs without stopping.You can view the video at The Mercury's Web site. Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Mercury.
Homicide by vehicle charges against Poust were announced Monday afternoon by the Montgomery County district attorney for the fatal crash that occurred Feb. 17 outside of Perkiomen Valley Middle School West on Route 73. Also filed were 45 charges of recklessly endangering another person because of the 45 middle school students on Poust's bus at the time of the crash.
Also today, state Rep. Josh Shapiro, D-Montgomery, called for the state Department of Transportation to start making accident records available to school districts to prevent the hiring of bus drivers with severe accident records from being hired.
Shapiro's action was in response to the Feb. 17 crash in which the bus involved was driven by Poust, who had caused a fatal crash in Bucks County in 1999. Poust had been using a cell phone when he drove through a stop sign and hit an oncoming car, killing a 2-year-old girl, Morgan Lee Pena.
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If the state had tougher restrictions, oh, puh-leeze! These are the same people who can't enforce the laws we have about driving while licensed and insured. Let me know when they get that part right. But to reflexively clutter up the laws with yet another rule in response to one isolated incident isn't the way to go.
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