Bus Driver's Handling of Fight Questioned
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Posted: 8:57 PM Mar 26, 2007
Last Updated: 6:49 AM Mar 27, 2007

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A school bus ride turns ugly after two middle school students get into a fight.

One ends up with her front tooth knocked out.

Her mother says she is angry with how the bus driver handled the situation.

OPS Student Breana Jackson says "I had blood on the seats and on the floor and on the walls."

It was all from a knocked out front tooth, the result of a fight with another seventh grader, a boy, on the school bus Wednesday.

Breana Jackson is healing at home on three days school suspension for the fight.

Her mother says Breana handled the situation the wrong way by resorting to violence.

But Kamila Wayne contends something else was also done incorrectly that day and that was the way the bus driver handled her daughter's injury.

"When he stopped the bus and separated them, he noticed Breana bleeding and he handed her a couple of paper towels and he continued on with his route without reporting it or calling 911 or anything," says Kamila Wayne, Breana’s mother.

It was 12-year-old Breana who called her mother on a cell phone and Kamila Wayne then notified the school.

Channel 6 News contacted Laidlaw which runs the school buses to find out if there is a policy for bus drivers to follow in a situation like this.

Phil O'Donnell, general manager with Laidlaw, says he's not sure if there is a written policy but drivers are trained to call dispatch with any problems so Laidlaw can respond appropriately.

He could not comment specifically on this incident saying the investigation into it is underway.

Kamila Wayne just hopes another family never shares her daughter's bus riding experience.

"I think that there needs to be some really concrete procedures in place when it comes to that because that was a really scary time for me, getting a call from her and she's hurt and there's nobody there to help her," says Wayne.

Both OPS and Laidlaw spokespersons mentioned some possible discrepancies in the stories about just what happened on the bus.

Something that could clear things up is the video from the bus camera.

Channel 6 was told every Laidlaw school bus has one and they should be recording at all times.

One problem though, a school principal tried to watch the video from the day in question and couldn't find anything recorded on that Wednesday.

Laidlaw says there might have been a problem but it's part of the investigation.

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