Do you know how fast this bus was going?   Of course not … likely even the driver doesn’t … arm yourself with knowledge to protect passenger’s safety, corporate liability and even the driver’s reputation:

Two people aboard an otherwise empty school bus avoided injury
Friday afternoon after the vehicle spun off the road and flipped onto
its side when the driver lost control while traveling east on Sunrise
Highway in Westhampton in a snowstorm, according to New York State
Police.

State Troopers, who are responsible for patrolling
Sunrise Highway, said there were no children aboard the Montauk Bus
Services school bus during the accident, which occurred at around 1
p.m. and near the exit for County Road 31 in Westhampton.

New York State Trooper Richard Gant said the driver of the school bus,
identified only as a 62-year-old man from Mastic Beach, and a
68-year-old woman who assists the driver in taking care of children,
were the only two people aboard the vehicle at the time of the accident.

Pat Filbert, the head of the safety department for the Center
Moriches-based Montauk Bus Service, declined to say where the bus
driver was heading at the time of the accident, or which school
district the bus services.

“Everything our people were doing was safe—it was bad weather,” Ms Filbert said on Monday. “There’s nothing you can do except do your best when it turns to ice. The first few minutes of a snowstorm are tough.”

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