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Chattanooga school bus driver arrested in crash. Story highlights Driver had a traffic citation for side swiping car with bus in September People donate blood, pizza, money to families. School staff help hospital identify students CNNA school bus packed with children slammed into a tree, flipped over and split apart. Shell shocked students and parents cried as rescuers worked for hours to pull them from the wreckage. This was the horrifying scene Monday afternoon on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' title='Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' />By Tuesday evening, the initial shock had given way to mourning and healing. At least five children were killed in the crash, school officials said, and six others are hospitalized in an intensive care unit. Five is a cursed number in our city right now, Mayor Andy Berke said. F8Bj6LOXRVk/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' title='Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' />At least three Indiana school districts that hired the startup firm True Consultant Service LLC to revamp bus routes ran into major problems when school began this. MUNCIE, Ind. WISH After cancelling school for two days and promising improvements in the bus schedule, Muncie Community Schools welcomed students back again. Trucker Docs answers questions from commercial drivers about DOT physical requirements, FMCSA regulations, medical certificate, and DOT long form. I have learned to answer them. The most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child. Meanwhile, the investigation continues into the cause of the crash and the driver, 2. Johnthony Walker, who has been arrested on vehicular homicide charges. Crowds gathered throughout Tuesday at a makeshift memorial in front of the home where the crash occurred on Monday around 3 2. The bus left Woodmore Elementary School with 3. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher A. Hart said in a news conference Tuesday. Families desperate for information began to swarm Erlanger Childrens Hospital Monday night, where children were treated for minor injuries, such as bruises and cuts, as well as broken limbs and traumatic head and spinal injuries, Erlanger Health System Senior Vice President Jan Keys said. Staff treated and released 1. Monday, most within two hours of their arrival. As of Tuesday afternoon, 1. One child was sent to the adult emergency room and was released from there. Donations of blood, toys and money poured in well wishers in Ohio delivered hundreds of boxes of pizza to the hospital. At one point on Tuesday more than 8. The task of identifying children was complicated by their school uniforms, age and traumatized condition. Many children were unable to spell their names some did not know their last names or their parents names and could only answer mama when asked. Parents used who had pictures of their children on their cellphones gave them to staff to identify them, Keys said. They were assisted by school staff, pastors and police. Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' title='Interview Questions For A School Bus Driver' />One teacher helped staff identify a student who did not survive with a picture she had taken at school Monday during a Thanksgiving lunch celebration. The picture of the smiling child brought a moment of happiness to the grieving family, Keys said. I think it was helpful for the family to know what one of the childs the last moments might have been like, Keys said. Bmw Road Map Europe Professional 2015. At sunset the community filled the New Monumental Baptist Church across from Woodmore Elementary School for a vigil. Hundreds of mourners filled the pews and extra rows of folding chairs and took up every inch of standing space. They cried and raised their hands in prayer as they sang of how God is in control, and that no matter how bleak the situation, things will get better. A survivor of the crash hobbled to the front of the crowd in crutches, bringing the tearful crowd to its feet. We love the children of Woodmore with all our hearts. We will grieve together and honor our childrens lives, Hamilton County Interim Superintendent Kirk Kelly said. While some families left the hospital Tuesday reunited with their children, not everyone was so lucky. Diamond Brown waited about seven hours to learn her 6 year old sons fate on Monday. She went to the scene, and knew DMyunn would be sitting at the front of the bus. Thats where he always sat. She saw him there, day after day, when she picked him up from the bus stop. It wasnt until hours later, Brown said, that authorities at the hospital told her that her son had died. There was nothing that they could do for him, she said, sobbing. It just took so long for me to find out that my baby was gone. He was my only child. Of the five children confirmed dead after Mondays crash, three were fourth graders, one was a first grader and one was a kindergartner. Police chief Investigators focusing on speed. A National Transportation Safety Board team arrived in Chattanooga on Tuesday morning to investigate the crash. The school bus was heading down a narrow and winding road Monday afternoon well above the speed limit of 3. Mr. Walker lost control of the bus and swerved off of the roadway to the right, striking an elevated driveway and mailbox, swerved to the left and began to overturn, striking a telephone pole and a tree, the affidavit says. The NTSB plans to speak with a witness who was driving behind the bus, said Hart, the NTSB chairman. Investigators also plan to review video from two cameras on the bus, one rear facing and one forward facing. The bus did not have seat belts but it takes more than seat belts to prevent injuries, Hart said. The NTSB will be looking into what else could have been done to contain the scope of damage and injuries. We still need to be concerned with the totality of the safety inside the the bus, he said. Bus drivers mother He was terrifiedThe NTSB also plans to speak with the driver, who has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Walker received his commercial drivers license in April, Hart said. Since then, records show he received a traffic citation for side swiping a car in September while driving a school bus. After the crash, Walkers mother said she got a phone call from her son, who told her hed been in a drastic accident and tried to explain what had happened before police took his phone away. When he talked to me, he was terrified, Gwenevere Cook said. He was trying to get them children off the bus all the bodies were limp. There was blood everywhere. He has been cooperating with the police. He texted me minutes later saying the kids are dead, she said. Cook expressed condolences to the victims families and asked for compassion for her son, describing him as a respected man and a father of a 3 year old son who worked two jobs and had never been in trouble before. It is a horrible nightmare, Cook said. I feel bad for my son, and I am torn up for the victims family members. The company that operated the bus and employed Walker has come under scrutiny. Durham School Services, a company that transports more than 1 million students daily at schools across the United States, said it was working with police and school officials to investigate. Neither the city of Chattanooga nor its schools interacts with the company, Chattanooga Mayor Berke said. Hamilton County runs the bus system. The companys website which normally depicts smiling children and bright yellow school buses beside a pledge about getting students to school safely was black on Tuesday, greeting visitors with a somber statement about the Chattanooga crash. Our entire team at Durham School Services is devastated by the accident yesterday that tragically claimed the lives of Chattanooga students, the statement said. CNNs Dave Alsup, Kevin Conlon, Sheena Jones, Natisha Lance and Jamiel Lynch contributed to this report.