Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE 3/25: A Roane County school bus driver is now facing a slew of charges after a crash Monday morning that injures two students.
Officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol say 64-year-old Paul Perrin was driving the bus on Ponders Gap Road just before 8:00 a.m. when it went off the right side of the road, down an embankment and came to a stop against a tree. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Twenty-one students were on board the bus at the time of the crash; two were injured in the incident.
THP says Perrin has been charged with false reporting, reckless endangerment, child abuse, aggravated reckless driving, due car and violating the hands-free law.
ORIGINAL STORY: The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating after two students are injured in a school bus crash in Roane County.
THP says 64-year-old Paul Perrin was driving the bus on Ponders Gap Road yesterday (Monday) morning when it went off the right side of the road and went down an embankment, coming to a stop against a tree. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
21 students on board the bus at the time of the crash, two were injured and their conditions have not been released.
THP says charges are pending against Perrin. District Attorney General Russell Johnson says the charges are related to Perrin being on his cell phone when he ran off the road.
