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A former Anderson County school bus driver has been indicted on charges related to a bus crash last year that injured four students.
Tammy Moore, 46, of Clinton was indicted by the grand jury on a charge of reckless endangerment and reckless driving in connection to a crash that occurred on May 21, 2013. Her bus, with 44 students aboard, was on Johnson Gap Road when the bus left the right side of the road and dropped off an embankment and turned over on to its side after traveling some 60 yards.
Four students were injured, with three suffering from minor injuries and one having to be treated at Children’s Hospital for a concussion. Moore initially told investigators that she had been forced off the road when another car crossed over the center line, but a review of in-bus video showed that no cars had passed the bus in the oncoming lane for several seconds before the crash.
School officials said their inquiry had determined she had been distracted by a student standing in the aisle of the bus.
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