The speed limit on that stretch of roadway is around 15 miles per hour and it’s not clear why she was there in the first place, said Denver Police Sgt. Mike Farr. Officials at Denver Health said they have five patients: two are in critical condition, two are in serious condition and one is in fair condition.
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Students at Legacy High School in Broomfield had counselors available and were shielded from reporters Monday.
“The team is really pulling for them”, Ferdani said.
The crash happened at 4:08 p.m. MT, airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said.
The bus driver was speeding as she veered off a roadway and slammed into a concrete pillar Sunday afternoon at Denver International Airport after picking up members of the Legacy High School football squad.
Adams 12, he said, is grieving the loss of the bus driver, a district employee whose name hasn’t yet been released.
It was a somber start to homecoming week Monday at a suburban Denver high school after a bus carrying football players and coaches crashed at the airport, killing the driver and injuring 18 passengers, some critically.
“The bus driver took a left to return to the terminal loop, instead of making the right” to leave the airport, Farr said. According to the New York Daily News, the school bus driver’s body was found “amid the mangled front of the yellow school bus”. They were also inspecting the bus for mechanical problems.
The Legacy football team had been playing in a tournament in California on Friday. Players on the bus were members of the varsity and junior varsity teams. As a part of the ongoing investigation, police interviewed the football players about the circumstances that led up to the crash that killed the bus driver. The Post reported that the injured were 15 students and three coaches from the suburban Denver school.
People dropped off flowers and balloons at the school as a makeshift memorial continues to grow.
“We’re like a family”, she said through tears.
John Chopper says the coroner told him alcohol was not found in his wife’s system and are still waiting for more toxicology reports to come back.
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When she first heard about the crash, she said, “I couldn’t”.
