21 minutes of panic as Moncton school bus driver disappears with students
CBC
Chris Roberts was at the bus stop as usual, waiting for his five-year-old son to come home from his Moncton school.
The bus arrived, the door opened and a number of students got off. Then the driver suddenly closed the door and started to drive away.
With his son still on the bus, Roberts began to run toward the bus to alert the driver.
"I started kind of running towards the bus, waving my hands in the air," Roberts said of the incident March 27. "That's when he just took off, waved to me, and in that instant, I had no idea what to expect."
Parents have been trying to piece together what happened but still don't have a clear picture because the Anglophone East School District isn't answering their questions.
They know about a dozen kids usually get off the bus on Chesed Boulevard, in a neighbourhood off the Salisbury Road in Moncton's west end, every day at about 3 p.m.
But on this day, the driver only let about half of them off the bus before driving away.
Roberts was even more concerned because he had heard the bus driver say something that sounded like he was going to teach the children a lesson.
Down the street, meanwhile, Kenny Caron was waiting for his 10-year-old son to arrive home from Bessborough School.
When the usual time came and went without his son's arrival, Caron hopped into his car and drove to the bus stop, where he met Roberts, who was on the phone with the school.
Caron decided to drive to the school, thinking the bus driver might have returned there with the kids. When he failed to locate the bus, he returned to his son's bus stop.
By now, an official with the school had told Roberts she reached the driver by radio and he said he was going to finish his route and then drop the kids off.
"So then I just sat there, you know, my heart pounded out of my chest for a couple of minutes," Roberts said.
Until the bus returned with the remaining children, Caron said, he was panicking "because we didn't know if he's having a mental breakdown or what is going on."
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