The Carrollton Bus Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

The thought of how scared they were in their last moments on earth, shatters my heart. Rest easy sweet babies.

The very sad feature length documentary is on prime "impact, after the crash"

Bus was only 11yrs old, build just months before standard safety stuff

This is heartbreaking. I didn't know the details this accident before today, but I am friends with the parents of one of the children who was killed. There isn't a day that goes by that they are not reminded of their daughter. Although they have gone on to live their lives, this is a shadow that never leaves.

I drive by this accident site almost on a weekly basis

This accident not only changed the requirements for school buses in KY but across the country. I was a school bus driver in MA and the next year ALL of our gas buses were replaced by diesel's. I am also old enough to have witness the changes that this kind of accident does. Unfortunately, the pattern I see is that it takes this kind of tragedy to make most of the safety changes we now take for granted from our personal and commercial vehicles to impaired operating laws.

If the bus was built to the regulations applicable at the time, how is it Fords fault?

I will never forget this awful accident.

16 years for 27 counts, and only serving 10, was rediculous. Especially when you add the DUI. People who rob banks and don't even harm anyone get like 40 to life

Drunken drivers scare me out of my wits. My late husband and late father were alcoholics. They drove after drinking. I'm surprised they never killed anyone! When will people learn???

my uncle worked this wreck. it was the wreck that made him quit being an ent because he to this day remembers the distinctive smell of burning bodies and melting skin to the plastic seats.

The driver Mr John Pearman died on impact. Unfortunately he did not operate a fire extinguisher and did not have any opportunity to save his daughter or fight the flames

The Mahoney’s were a bad bunch. All of them drunks. Surprisingly, one actually became a police officer, although he nearly destroyed the integrity of the academy and the force in the process

But government regulations...!!

My brother was killed by a drunk driver

Again, I learn something new. Thank you. Greetings from Dimboola, in Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺.

Props to the people who accepted $1 so that they can save the life of other children... even though they lost their own child...

What kind of "friends" give the keys back to someone who is drunk and let him drive home. They are partially to blame here as well as they could have easily stopped him from drunk driving.

In 1969 a school bus and a 18 wheeler hit head on on U.S.98 in front of a cemetery in Foley ,Alabama killed 3 or 4 including the truck driver a bean picker. The picker came out of a field and pulled in front of the truck it jackknifed 2 busses got by the 3rd bus got caught up and wwas part of the carnage people from town that had station wagons the fire department had old military cloth stretches and loaded passengers took a lot of them to different hospitals in Mobile Al all hospitals had patients from the wreck that was the talk of the town for 2 or 3 years

This is one of the reasons I have never owned and will never buy a Ford-built anything. Vile company.

I have never understood how people get going the wrong way on a freeway. You would have to make several weird turns and pass by a bunch of signs that are red and say WRONG WAY. Then you would see headlights coming at you. How drunk do you have to be to miss all that.

10 years for 27 lives? He escaped the flames but 🔥🔥🔥 await him in Hell

Naaaaah tht drunk driver should pay with his head

9 year old children resisting the urge to say “only in ohio 💀”

Screw Ford. The company easily could’ve made the buses safer.

Grew up about 20 mins away from the crash site. One of the teachers in my middle school was a surviving student of the crash.

He received 0.5925 years per manslaughter charge. Of children? Why? He knew he was putting people’s lives in danger and didn’t care.

Sadly tho, the giant pencil did not survive. It was used by the student that had to use it to fight his way off the bus and eventually deflated and stomped on by the students and fire fighters. Ford did not offer any compensation for that tragic incedent.deanonkatharinesphone

I grew up in state institutions as a child and our bus had the same windows where you needed two hands. Push the buttons inward and they
will slide down. However that was good in practice not under severe stress so our school made sure there was at least 3 crowbars on every
school outing just in case something this tragic ever happened.

I know the person who actually crashed into the bus and the guy felt so bad that he actually stayed in jail for 10 more years when he could’ve been released 10 years earlier. He’s actually a pretty nice guy every once in a while I stopped in to bring him some groceries because he can’t get around that good but what happened on May 14 will never be forgotten.

I live near there and minus a few incorrect details you practically nailed this story. 🙏

Why am I not surprised the bus with an explosive fuel tank is made by Ford 🤦‍♂️

Ford Pinto anyone?

I have no sympathy or remorse for drunk drivers.

I lived and still live just a few miles away from the site of the crash. I was in highschool at the time and like lots of small town teenagers I liked to drink . It really brought home the potential cost of driving drunk . I had a friend many years later who left a party in Indiana and was driving home to Harrison Ohio , only about a 15 minute drive, but he went left of center and hit another car head on killing a young lady in the car he hit. He went to prison for vehicular manslaughter and came out a couple years later completely useless for anything. He developed a heroin addiction and died within a year after being released from prison. So his decision to drive home drunk basically ruined and shortened his life drastically and ended another one instantly

Find r the last 4 years I’ve driven past the sign that makes that spot on I-71. 95% of the time I would say a prayer for the people on that Bus. I will never own a FORD, because of the way they REFUSED to fix the problem of the fuel tank

I LOVE this channel.

God bless there soulds

Drunk drivers are one of the worst people to ever exist.

16-year sentence for killing 27 people, and only served 10 years. What a joke. Should have been life without parole.

Was this bus power by diesel or gasoline? Because where I come from, all buses are diesel and this sounds like a gasoline fire.

Very concise and well spoken narration. It is good to listen to someone who did not murder the English language.

I'm sorry, but no, that drunk driver DID NOT make a mistake: HE CHOSE TO GET DRUNK, PURCHASE MORE ALCOHOL, AND GET BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A MOTOR VEHICLE. He made a choice and his choice was absolute garbage.

Of course he's remorseful after the fact. He actually had to live with the consequences of his actions. Honestly, he deserved to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁LION c LIKE No. 33K your pivture is not that of a 1958 bus

Why do you americans let drunk people drive in the first place?, in my country (Sweden) and I thik most other ones to you will lose you driving licence and other punishment on top of that if you drive with any alcohol in your system, the result being that drunk driving is far more rare here

I'm surprised he only got 16 years, but I imagine they figured he would suffer all his life for what he had done.😥

Speaking of driving accidents, please cover the 1951 Gillingham Bus Disaster. I think you can still do your own take on this tragedy that should never be forgotten.

In Kent, 1951, a group of royal marine cadets were on their way to watch a boxing match on a dark foggy night in December when a bus without any basic lighting for nighttime struck them by accident. 24 people died in the accident, with 20 of them being kids from the royal marine cadet group who unfortunately happened to be standing under a broken street light when the buss struck them.

1968: We're all living in a yellow submarine.

1988: We're all dying in a yellow former school bus.

Single file lines and staying calm in fires is so important, tbfrl. It would have taken under a minute if the crowd had been calm and coordinated.

I drive past the exact spot this happened every so often. I just passed it, and I'm actually en route to Kings Island as I type this.

My arms are covered in goose bumps, and I can't imagine the pain felt here.