Remember the Chattanooga bus crash last year that killed 6 elementary school children?

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In a pair of lawsuits filed today, Woodmore Elementary School employees say they suffered "acute emotional trauma" from last November's deadly crash and want the bus company to pay for its negligence.

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Many of the parents told her they could trust her and desperately wanted to know the condition of their children," attorney Ronald Berke wrote. "She felt guilty not being able to tell the truth."

The day after the crash, Bibbs was expected to return to work and "act normal."

Neither Bibbs or Stephanie Muhammed, a Woodmore teacher who filed a second lawsuit, were prepared to deal with that situation or the trauma that followed, Berke said.

Ms. Muhammed suffered such stress and emotional distress that, while at the hospital, she collapsed and had to be taken to the emergency room," Berke wrote. "She had welts on her neck and had to be treated."

Both employees named driver Johnthony Walker and his employer, Durham School Services, in their lawsuits.

Like the other 20 or so lawsuits already filed, today's allege gross negligence on Durham's behalf because it continued to employ Walker after receiving complaints about his reckless driving.

Durham is a private company that provides most of the county's transportation needs.

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