Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Dead At The Wheel

The Mail Tribune:
[Bus driver Jill Ann] Hilburn, of White City, was driving 19 kids and four counselors south on I-5 when the bus brushed against the concrete median near milepost 29 just north of the viaduct, according to the Oregon State Police.

At that moment, YMCA Assistant Director Sarah Hansen noticed that Hilburn was unconscious. So Hansen, 22, grabbed the steering wheel and stomped on the brakes, maneuvering the Laidlaw Transit Inc. bus safely across one lane and onto the freeway’s right shoulder.
An autopsy revealed "hardened and clogged arteries that triggered the attack."

You can't fly a Cessna 150 without a third class medical certificate. But I guess school bus drivers don't even need that.