San Diego
The California Highway Patrol said Thursday it plans to press speeding charges against the driver of a San Diego school bus that overturned while transporting a special education student.
Paul Vincent Aquino, 23, was driving 46 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone on Ingraham Street near Sunset Cliffs Boulevard Wednesday when the bus overturned, CHP officer Gary Sharpe said.
Sharpe said a safe speed for a bus on the curved road is 30 m.p.h.
Both the driver and the 7-year-old student, who was not identified, escaped without injuries.
Aquino told police the bus flipped on its side when he was forced to evade another car. However, Sharpe said, “We were unable to support his statement that there was another vehicle involved.”
According to an official of Laidlaw Transport, Aquino has been a bus driver since 1983 and was a driver with Laidlaw Transport in Orange County before transferring to San Diego in January.
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