School bus crash today that occurred on Tuesday afternoon left two young students and one adult dead. The crash involved two school buses that accidentally collided into each other on Asheville Highway near the Governor John Sevier Highway.
The Knoxville police has officially released the names of the casualties of the school bus crash today on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the officials who were quick to arrive at the scene had pronounced Zykia Burns, six years old, Seraya Glasper, seven years old, and Kimberly Riddle, 46 years old, to be dead.
Riddle was actually a teacher's aide as well as a youth minister at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church.
Jim Ragonese, the spokesperson of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, stated that the doctors treated a total of eight patients and had already released six of them. Knoxville police has already confirmed that two of those patients were Jaden Allen, seven years old, and Jada Parman, also seven years old.
According to Ragonese, Parman is in critical condition. However, no further details have been provided regarding Allen's current medical status.
Based on the findings of Knoxville police, one of the bus drivers, James Davenport, was one of the eight patients who were transported to the UT Medical Center. Fortunately, he only had injuries that were not life-threatening and was treated immediately.
The officials of the school said that Davenport, 47 years old, was driving bus No. 44 from Chilhowee Intermediate. He was reportedly traveling east on Asheville Highway when he suddenly made a very sharp left -hand turn and crossed over a concrete median.
It was at this time when the bus that Davenport was driving accidentally collided with the side of Knox County School bus No. 57, which flipped onto its side and continued to slide before coming to a stop across both westbound lanes.
The officials of Knox County School said that it was Joe Gallman, 67 years old, who was driving their bus, which, in turn, carried students who went to Sunnyview Primary School. Eighteen more children from this second bus were taken to the Children's Hospital to get treatment, all of whom were non-emergency cases.
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