Former Tennessee school bus driver convicted in fatal crash

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Jurors began deliberating Wednesday and continued Thursday morning before reaching their verdicts in the afternoon.

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Walker was driving 37 children from Woodmere Elementary School when the wreck occurred on a winding Chattanooga road.

Prosecutor Crystle Carrion said Tuesday in court that Walker was driving 50 mph (80 kph) on the narrow road when the bus ran off the pavement, hit a pole and flipped into a tree.

She said Walker was driving too fast to navigate a tight curve safely and drifted into the oncoming lane, then overcorrected, leading to the crash.

Walker took the stand Wednesday and said he wasn’t on his cellphone when the bus crashed. He also said he was travelling 35 mph (56 kph) when he approached a curve, and another vehicle dipped into his lane.

Chattanooga police officer Joe Warren testified Tuesday that no evidence suggested the second vehicle was in Walker’s lane.

Defence attorney Amanda Dunn said police made assumptions and came to their conclusions before getting all the facts in the case.

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Information from: Chattanooga Times Free Press, http://www.timesfreepress.com

The Associated Press