WILLIAMSTOWN - As guards escorted Angelynna Young out of a courtroom Thursday to begin serving a 22-year sentence (video) for causing a near-fatal school bus crash, she turned to some of the injured students and said she was sorry..."It is too late to say you are sorry," said Steve Shively, whose son Cody was one of two children who received head injuries in the wreck. "You should have thought of that the morning you got on the bus. I'm just thoroughly disgusted."
Authorities said Young, 29, of Williamstown, had little sleep and illegal drugs in her system on Jan. 17 when she caused the worst bus wreck the region had seen since the 1988 Carroll County bus crash that killed 27 people. A drunken driver going the wrong direction on Interstate 71 slammed into a church bus returning from Kings Island.
The wreck has been an emotional event for rural Grant County because residents believe their trust was violated, Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Crawford said.
"You don't put your kid on the bus and not feel confident in the school bus driver," Crawford said. "It is like not having confidence in a police officer, firefighter or doctor. There are certain people in society you have to believe in."
About 30 people attended the emotional hearing in Grant Circuit Court and watched a video taken aboard the bus as Young ran off U.S. 25, overcorrected and struck a utility pole.
"The day of the accident was the worst day of my life," Steve Shively said. "You don't know if your son is going to live. ... Doctors will not tell you. All you can do is sit and cry. That's all we did, basically, for three months was to sit and cry."
This from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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