NTSB says Talley Road not on designated route for bus in fatal crash

By Kendi A. Rainwater, Emmett Gienapp November 23, 2016 4 min read

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Officials look for answers in fatal bus crash as community mourns

Hamilton County Interim School Superintendent Dr. Kirk Kelly, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and Woodmore Principal Brenda Adamson-Cothran, from left, speak at a news conference at Woodmore Elementary School on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, in Chattanooga. Gov. Haslam visited the school following Monday's school bus crash that killed five children and injured dozens more.

NTSB investigator in charge Robert Accetta, left, and investigator Michele Beckjord examine the road at the site of a fatal school bus crash on Talley Road on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, in Chattanooga. A makeshift memorial to victims of the Monday crash, which killed five Woodmore Elementary students and injured dozens more, has grown since the road was reopened Tuesday.

Neighborhood resident Michelle Ingram places a teddy bear in memory of victims at the site of a fatal school bus crash on Talley Road on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, in Chattanooga. The makeshift memorial to victims of the Monday crash, which killed five Woodmore Elementary students and injured dozens more, has grown since the road was reopened Tuesday.

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UPDATE at 8 p.m.: The Chattanooga Police Department confirmed a sixth child involved in the Woodmore Elementary bus crash has died.

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UPDATES: The road that Johnthony Walker was driving on when his school bus crashed killing five children was not the route designated for his trip, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

At the press conference Wednesday night a spokesman for NTSB said Walker hit a mailbox on the right side of the road before swerving across and hitting a utility pole on the other side.