Harris said his daughter and stepson were in shock and pain after the crash but were doing better Tuesday morning. "There has been times where I've seen him going a little faster than he probably should be going," Harris said. So today, the city is praying for these families."Ĭraig Harris, a parent of two children who were on the bus, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday morning he thought the bus driver sometimes drove too fast. "There are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father. "The most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child," Berke said. Kirk Kelly, the interim superintendent of Hamilton County schools, said six students were still in intensive care Tuesday morning and six others were also hospitalized.Ĭhattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said the city was in mourning. Television cameras showed emergency vehicles still there late into the night, and the National Transportation Safety Board tweeted that a team would be heading to Chattanooga on Tuesday morning to investigate. More than 20 children went to hospitals for their injuries, according to Fletcher.Įmergency responders needed almost two hours to get all the children off the bus. He also said a warrant had been issued to remove the bus' black box, which contains data about the vehicle's movement.īloodied Woodmore Elementary School students lay on stretchers, while others walked away dazed with their parents after the crash, local news outlets reported. The bus was the only vehicle involved in the crash, but Fletcher said the scene was complicated and covered a significant area. Thirty-five students from kindergarten through fifth grade were on board when the bus flipped onto its side and wrapped around a tree. The Associated Press was not immediately able to reach officials Tuesday morning to explain the discrepancy. Earlier Monday, Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston told news outlets the crash killed six. Police said overnight that five children were killed in the crash. His bond was set at $107,500, according to the affidavit. An arrest affidavit posted online by Chattanooga station WTVC says Walker was driving well above the posted 30 mph speed limit on a narrow, winding road. Investigators were looking at speed "very, very strongly" as a factor in the crash, Fletcher said earlier. Walker was also charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Police arrested a Chattanooga school bus driver on charges including vehicular homicide after a bus crash killed five students.Ĭalling the Monday afternoon crash "every public safety professional's worst nightmare," Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher told an overnight news conference that 24-year-old bus driver Johnthony Walker was charged with five counts of vehicular homicide.
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