It's a scene that is becoming too familiar, and not in a good way: grieving students weeping openly, and teary-eyed teachers trying to console them.
Once again, this was the picture at Holmwood Technical High School in Manchester.
This after four more students were killed in an early-morning accident on their way to school yesterday. There was a feeling there was no simple 'moving on' from this one.
"I've seen accidents before, but I've never experienced anything like this," said staff member Patricia Reid-Clarke.
"This one I can't get past."
Reid-Clarke said she was among a few teachers travelling behind the ill-fated bus that collided with a truck on the Chudleigh main road.
Reid-Clarke was especially sad about the passing of one student, whom she felt could have been saved.
"We just couldn't get the back door open," she lamented. "You could see her wrenching in pain." read more...
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