Dash camera video released Thursday by a Hays County, Texas school district shows the moment a concrete pumper truck veered into oncoming traffic and hit a…
Dash camera video released Thursday by a Texas school district shows the moment a concrete pumper truck veered into oncoming traffic, hitting a school bus carrying more than 40 pre-K students returning from a zoo field trip and killing a child and an adult.Videos released by the Hays Consolidated Independent School District showed views, one from the dashcam and another from an external camera. The video showed the truck veer into the bus's lane and the bus overturn.
On Thursday, in anticipation of the video being released publicly, Hays CISD Chief Communication Officer Tim Savoy released the following statement:1Let me begin by expressing how much I continue to be profoundly heartbroken about the tragic accident in which you were involved. I know that processing this trauma is taking tremendous strength and courage on your part. The entire school district community, and the whole nation for that matter, is in your corner.
In Texas, a school district is a public entity and is subject to the Texas Public Information Act. That law ensures you, and any member of the public, has access to almost every piece of information created or retained by the school district – including videos on buses. As a public entity, the district belongs to the taxpayers. Another law – the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act – protects information that is specific about individual students.
release the exterior bus videos to the media. These videos do not show any children. However, they may still be disturbing for you to watch because you were involved in the accident. Please know that once released, the videos will likely be widely circulated on social media and we will get requests from additional media outlets for the same material. I want you to be prepared so that you can make your own decisions about whether you wish to view them.
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