The chief complaint among the suits was that the wreck could and should have been prevented. The latest, filed in August 2019, was settled in March of this year for an undisclosed amount. At least nine are still pending or are being appealed. The driver, Johnthony Walker, then-24, was found guilty in 2018 on six counts of criminally negligent homicide, 11 counts of reckless aggravated assault and seven counts of assault.Īt least 35 lawsuits were filed in Hamilton County Circuit Court, the first just two days after the crash. Many of them, to this day, weep when recalling that tragic day and the horrifying scene they witnessed. Some of the first responders who worked the scene had to seek help for their own psychological trauma. The scene could "only be described as carnage," as one civil lawsuit put it. Six children died - Zyaira Mateen, 6 D'Myunn Brown, 6 Zyanna Harris, 10 Cor'Dayja Jones, 9 Zoie Nash, 9, and Keonte Wilson, 8 - and dozens more were injured. The roof of the bus collapsed inward, nearly touching its floor. and collided with a utility pole, overturning and crashing into a tree. 21, 2016, Hamilton County school bus 366 was carrying 37 Woodmore Elementary School students home when it veered off Talley Road just before 3:30 p.m. ![]() 21, 2016 fatal bus crash that killed six Woodmore Elementary Students.įour years after the tragic Woodmore school bus crash that left six children dead and dozens more injured, some of the victims' families' legal battles are just coming to a close, while others are still being fought. ![]() 5, 2018 in Judge Don Poole's courtroom at the Hamilton County Criminal Courthouse in Chattanooga, Tenn. Smith / Johnthony Walker leaves the Hamilton County Criminal Courthouse with Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies following a pretrial hearing in Walker's case Monday, Feb.
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