The case of the bus driver charged with numerous felonies when her bus crashed in September and hospitalized dozens of high school students was bound over to a grand jury Tuesday morning.
Brenda K. Gray, 54, Jonesborough, was charged with eight counts of reckless aggravated assault, 31 counts of felony reckless endangerment, speeding, reckless driving and failure to exercise due care.
That is a charge for each of the 39 students on the bus.
Twenty-seven David Crockett High School students were taken to area hospitals after the bus rolled multiple times on Mount Wesley Road Sept. 20.
Gray was charged a few weeks later. She appeared this morning in Washington County Sessions Court, where Judge Robert Lincoln handed the case to the grand jury.
Two investigators, two Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and a student testified at the hearing.
The student said Gray asked the students if they wanted to lose their stomachs, then the bus went over the hill. The student remembered no more.
Keep checking JohnsonCityPress.com and Wednesday's print edition for a full story by Staff Writer Becky Campbell, including additional comments from the student who testified today.