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Chicago School Sued Over Bus Crash Involving Vomiting Driver

How safe are your children when they get on the school bus each morning? After a bizarre Chicago school bus crash in December of last year, many in Illinois are wondering.

Akilah Giddings, the mother of a 13-year-old girl who attends a Cook County school, has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the Illinois Center School Bus Company. Her daughter, student Jacqual Calbert, seriously injured her ankle in a bus crash and was in a cast for four weeks following the accident.

Cook County authorities say that the bus driver became sick while driving the vehicle and opened the door of the bus in order to vomit outside. However, he did not stop the vehicle when he became ill and tumbled out of the bus as he was leaning over to throw up. The unmanned bus then continued down the road and into a ditch, injuring several students. Giddings told reporters that she couldn’t believe the driver would not pull over if feeling sick and stated that she believes the negligence of the driver and the bus company caused her daughter’s injury. She filed the Illinois personal injury lawsuit on Monday at a Cook County Circuit Court. She is seeking $50,000 in damages.

The Illinois Center School Bus Company, one of the largest bus companies in the nation, has declined to comment on the Chicago bus accident lawsuit, though Giddings’ Illinois personal injury lawyer says that an out-of-court settlement might be in the works.

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