Dozens Of School Bus Crash Lawsuits Settled

Alabama Crash The bus plunged off an interstate overpass in Huntsville killing four students and injuring dozens.
by The Associated Press
Published: Tue, March 03, 2009 - 1:45 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, March 03, 2009 - 1:47 pm CST
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Dozens of injury lawsuits filed on
behalf of Lee High School students have been settled in the 2006
wreck of a school bus in Huntsville that plunged off an interstate
overpass.
Huntsville attorney Douglas Fees said Tuesday that settlements
were reached after mediation with bus operator Laidlaw Transit
Inc., based in Illinois at the time of the wreck, and bus driver
Anthony Scott.
The Nov. 20, 2006 crash left four high school girls dead and
started a national debate over school bus safety and adding seat
belts to the vehicles carrying schoolchildren.
Families of the four girls who died reached settlements in their
wrongful death suits last November. The financial terms of all the
settlements are confidential.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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