Police rope off the scene of an accident involving two school buses in Knoxville on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.KNOXVILLE – Authorities today laid the blame for a school bus crash last December that killed two students and a teacher’s aide on a texting bus driver.
The Knoxville Police Department released a statement saying James Davenport, the driver of bus 44, “was driving while distracted due to sending and receiving text messages.”
“Multiple text message had been sent and received during the time leading up to the crash,” police concluded.
Davenport was later found dead in his home from what appeared to be natural causes.
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