The Nation : Driver Silent About Fatal Bus Accident

As 4,000 people crowded a funeral for four of the victims in San Juan del Valle, Tex., the driver of a truck that collided with a school bus and knocked it into a water-filled pit refused to answer questions about the accident that killed 20 teen-agers, investigators said. On the advice of his attorneys, truck driver Ruben Perez, 25, chose not to talk to National Transportation Safety Board members about the Thursday accident in Alton, Tex., that injured at least 63 others. At the funeral, Father Francisco Quezada told the mourners: “If you want to shout, shout. If you want to cry, cry. If you want to strike your chest, those are all natural human reactions, but we need to transform the shouts . . . into hope.”