Warren Township Superintendent John Ahlgrim said based on interviews and the videos, district officials have “no reason” to believe the driver wasn’t planning on stopping before the railroad crossing, a mandate handed down after seven Cary-Grove High School students were killed when a school bus was hit by a Metra express train in Fox River Grove. Villasenor told the News-Sun that the bus looked like it was accelerating toward the railroad crossing and she didn’t think it was planning to stop.Įl bus quedó así a unos centímetros del tren y Yeno de niños asta una varilla quedó arriba del bus □Posted by Alma Villaseñor Olivares on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Waukegan resident Alma Villasenor posted a Facebook Live video that shows a school bus with district 121 and 56 markings on it stopped as a freight train shoots past. The swim team was en route to Lake Forest High School Tuesday when the railroad crossing gates came down on the bus at Routes 41 and 137 in North Chicago, Athletic Director Becky Belmont said in an email to parents the day after the incident. The News-Sun requested the video from Warren Township High School District 121 after an interview with an eyewitness to an incident on Jan. The Illinois Attorney General’s public access division has pointed that same provision in backing up school district denials to public records request, according to copies of two nonbinding opinions, one from 2011 regarding footage from Valley View School District 365U and a more recent one from 2016 involving Monmouth-Roseville Community Unit School District 238. The district pointed to a provision of criminal law dealing with eavesdropping, which makes recordings showing the inside of school buses confidential records accessible only to district and law enforcement officials. The surveillance video from a Warren Township High School District 121 bus that had a railroad crossing gate come down on it in January cannot be released, the district said.
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