Tragedy

Fayetteville and Rogers high school students speak near a Rogers Public Schools bus after it struck several cars and collided with a tree in front of Fayetteville High School following a basketball game at FHS.

While turning photos from the basketball game, I was listening to the scanner and heard about a wreck in front of the school involving multiple cars and a driver who was listed as Code Blue. In the pouring rain, I sped back to the school to find a bus had plowed through several cars to come to rest in front of the gymnasium after striking a tree. The driver was coming back to the school to take the Rogers cheerleaders back home to Rogers when he reportedly had a heart attack. School officials reported that the driver had been revived but was unresponsive at the scene. One of the athletes at FHS broke in the door of the bus and tried to help the bus driver. What a terrible thing to have happen.