Ashanti Thames said when her son texted her at about 1:45 p.m. on Thursday that a school bus had flipped over on the interstate , she didn’t believe it.
“I said, ‘FaceTime me,’” she said. “He showed me the bus on its side, and I just got in my car and shot across as quick as I could.”
Thames’ 14-year-old son was riding in the bus behind the bus that was in the wreck, and he and his classmates were thrown to the floor when his driver swerved to avoid the wreck as the tire on the bus ahead blew out and it flipped over. Besides some bruises, he was unhurt, but Thames said he knew Jose Maria Gonzales Linares, the student who died in the wreck …