During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.

Barnes said, “In all my years of driving a school bus, if you have a child in elementary school, or wherever, and they get off the bus, you say, ‘Baby, come up here, let’s see what’s going on.

New Jersey school bus accident that injured 5 remains under investigation 01:58. A school bus crash on I-195 in the Monmouth County town of Wall Township sent five people to a hospital and shut ...