We close schools with the smallest amount of moisture, glad to see once we did not.

i don't understand. last year we got school cancelled because of rain. today was insane. on the bus i saw three accidents, and a few people getting towed.

Cant blame the bus driver,blame the one that calls school or not..Thank god the bus driver and kids weren't hurt !

Thank full no one was injured , accidents like this always make me wonder why the govt and states regulate and mandate that all vehicles must have seat belts ,you must have your young child in an approved car seat and children under a certain age must wear them and in some states even adults are required to wear seat belts ......but none of these regulations pertain to school buses

Exactly, we've closed schools for much less and yet this morning when 111 was SHEER ice, cars are off the road, and a bus had an accident, we have school! Makes complete sense!

There should have been a delay! It took my daughter's bus 30 min to get up the Middle School driveway.

Chris.....you must not have children......the roads are a mess.....a delay should of been called. Kids don't need to be put in danger if it can be controlled!

They also need to improve communication. Some of mine are supposed to be picked up at 8. We get an alert at 9:15 that the buses are running 45 minutes late?

Never mind a delay school should of been cancelled.Thank god nobody was hurt.

Which bus was in the accident

The reports are Beacon HIll. The WMS buses that travel that road are W4 and W8, the GBS/WCS bus route is W17

Thanks for that information Dave. Not sure what school it was a bus for. Which school would have them running at 7:45 a.m.? I'm guessing WMS.

Mike - at that time it could be either. I would normally say the later routes since they start around that time, but the WMS routes were so late I would agree that it was most likely one of the their buses. Plus the school sent out an alert that all of the WMS buses had arrived safely as of 8:51 AM..

That was a high school bus. My daughter was supposed to be on it, but when it got about 10 minutes past its normal time I drover her. She got texted by someone on the bus that it was hit.

Well if the plows for the town would drop their plows, instead of driving up and down the road (not dropping sand or salt either) with the plows up wasting fuel, there may have been more roads cleared for the buses to drive safely.

was that town roads or state? 28 and 111 are all state so town cant drop the plows there..

Not just the state, the roads leading up to Windham High are never plowed and seeing as they have lots of hills, with very little salt it is very common to see people fishtailing and even doing 360, which can develop accidents. A good friend of mine even ended up in a very bad accident and her car is totaled. Now, is this safe? I will be discussing matters like this on my show, The Vincent Show. Check out my blog to get the details.

Thanks Dave and Jeff for clarification, I wasn't taking into consideration the delays.

There should have been at least a 90 minute delay so the town had time to work on the roads so they were safe for buses, parents, and teachers to drive their kids to school! Our bus came down my unplowed hilly road 1 HOUR after it was supposed too and all the kids were already back in their houses to stay home or driven. By the time some of these buses even got to school, they were already 70 minutes late! I was slipping all over my road even after it was plowed this morning and I was driving a truck 4 wheel drive! I would of had a head on if a car was driving on the other side of the road. Not a smart decision to put our kids lives in danger! Thank God, no one was injured in the bus accident. I wish I just had them stay home like many people did, so I don't have to worry about the ride home today.

I am starting to question the judgment of our town officials. A delay was absolutely needed and a cancelation was a possibility if the roads did not improve. There were numerous accidents including the bus. Route 93 was a parking lot this morning. The infamous hill on Range Road that intersects with Marblehead Road was closed. This decision cost Windham residents thousands of dollars in repairs at a time when every penny counts. My wife and daughter both had minor collisions with little or no damage and I witnessed numerous accidents and cars off the roads. We lock down the schools when someone in the next town shoots a gun but we throw caution to the wind and allow young drivers and school busses to travel treacherous roads when a simple delay could have prevented most of the problems. I guess common sense isn’t as common as it used to be.

Sorry Christy but i know for a fact they were out about 6:15am sanding ! the snow started about 5:00am ? so i really think that is good timing to get the guys up and out.
These guys come from other towns than windham !!

My daughter was rear-ended twice today on the way to school. By adults! Stupidly, i assumed that school would be cancelled if it were dangerous to drive.

Id be pissed at the person(s) who forced my children out the door into a snowstorm to ride a school bus with no seatbelts on icy roads to school too......if i can find him/her - I will hold them accountable for their actions..whoa be them...

This was not a day that kids should have been going to school. The person who was responsible for that decision needs to ride a bus before he makes another dangerous decision like that. Heres to him enjoying that ride!

Did that person put your student on the bus or did you make the decision to put your student on the bus if "you" thought it was unsafe ???? or do you depend on a school official to make that decision for you..you could've decided to drive your student to school or simply kept student home if you disagreed with school decision....