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Tinsel and Tutus @ Reynolds Performance Hall — 12/12/13
12/12 — The Conway Symphony Orchestra entertained with Christmas music, including highlights from The Nutcracker performed by the Arkansas Festival Ballet.
If speed, as has been alleged, is at the root of Monday’s horrific bus crash that claimed the lives of five Woodmore Elementary School students, we can be certain of one thing. The accident was preventable.
Talley Road, on which the accident occurred, is a roller-coaster of small hills and gentle and sharp curves. The speed limit on the road is 30 mph.
If one is speeding up or down one of those hills near where the accident occurred and must turn the steering wheel in a gentle curve, speed and the turn have the potential to roll an estimated 25,000-pound bus. Investigators, including the National Transportation Safety Board, will determine what ultimately occurred, but speed and that portion of the road – about one-half mile from Brainerd Road – offer that possibility.
But while determining the cause of the crash may decide the culpability of bus driver Johnthony Walker, it won’t bring back the five children, who may have been innocently chattering about where they were going to eat at Thanksgiving dinner, their art projects at school or the latest Beyoncé song before the bus began to swerve.