Woman Charged In Bus Crash

**Willowdared** · 02-22-08, 04:35 PM

Woman Charged In Bus Crash

Immigration Officials Help Identify Suspect

POSTED: 9:15 am PST February 22, 2008
UPDATED: 11:43 am PST February 22, 2008

Authorities charged a Minnesota woman with four counts of vehicular homicide in a school bus crash that killed four children.
Police said a 23-year-old known as Alianiss N. Morales was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign and hit a bus carrying 28 students. The van struck the bus, which rolled over onto a pickup truck, police said.

The accident happened near the small town of Cottonwood in southwestern Minnesota.

Lyon County Attorney Richard Maes said Morales was also charged Friday with a stop sign violation and driving without a valid license.
The driver of the truck told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that he saw the van run the stop sign.

"I saw the maroon van run a stop sign, it blew over the railroad tracks and hit the bus, sending it sliding into me," James M. Hancock, 45, of Marshall, told the newspaper from his hospital bed in Sioux Falls, S.D. "The next thing I knew, they were hauling kids out and it was chaos."

Authorities also said Morales is not the woman's real name. Minnesota State Patrol spokesman Mark Peterson said authorities had asked immigration officials to help them identify the woman in custody.

**Twan007** · 02-22-08, 05:34 PM

you've gotta be kidding me...

i hope to high heaven she's not an illegal immigrant...

God bless the little ones, and rest in peace those whom did not get the chance to experience all life has to offer.

**Five-0** · 02-22-08, 07:40 PM

Oh but she is Twan

**jim dandy** · 02-22-08, 08:40 PM

This is the big story on all the MN news. She is going to get no mercy on this, She was pinched for no MN D/L a while back. I did not hear she was a illegal for sure, I know it was being looked into.