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Norwood School Bus Accident
Posted on March 25, 2009
This is the scene about 8:15 a.m. on March 25, 2009 as one of the Norwood School buses slid off the roadway because of mud . The bus was almost fully loaded with students and a tragedy was narrowly avoided. There were only some minor bumps, bruises and cuts. It could have been much worse. The bus driver was able to keep the bus from overturning off the bridge and that would certainly have led to tragedy. The accident occured on Retherford Road northwest of Norwood.
These photos were taken a few minutes after another bus had taken the students on to school.
The above photos were taken the morning after the accident after the bus was in town.
The above photos were taken the morning after the accident after the bus was in town.
This photo was taken with me standing approx where the rear of the bus stopped.
This photo looks down and the bus was siting over this spot. You can see how far a roll it would have been if the bus has rolled on over. It was a very narrowly missed tragedy.
If you look at the top photo closely you can see how much mud there was from the tracks in the mud and the bottom two photos show the new gravel that the county road board has added since the event.
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