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Newly obtained video taken from a Leander school bus shows the bus entering a low-water crossing as floodwaters deluged Central Texas last week. The bus is washed off the road, bobbing backwards down swollen Brushy Creek for several minutes until rescuers got the driver and a 12-year-old boy to safety.
The video, which is about four minutes long, was released to the American-Statesman and KVUE-TV on Friday and is part of the investigation into a child endangerment case against school bus driver Nathan DeYoung.
DeYoung also was charged with driving around a barricade and was booked into the Williamson County Jail on Oct. 16, the day of the incident.
The video shows the bus driving around a caution sign on County Road 177 before entering the low water crossing. Within seconds, the hood of the bus is nearly completely submerged.
From there, the bus was carried by the water’s current for about two minutes — rocking from the force of the water and knocking into tree branches and other debris — before finally coming to a rest in a group of trees. The video ends with the bus stranded in the creek with water gushing over its hood.
At that point, rescuers from the Leander Fire Department and Williamson County Emergency Medical Services were able to rescue the boy and DeYoung.
The boy’s mother, Ashley Ringstaff, wrote in a Facebook post that that her son called her “in hysterics (from the bus) telling me he loves me and that he is scared and thinking he was going to die. I hope no one ever has to listen to their child or loved one preparing to die because of a stupid decision that should of never have happened.”
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