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“Not Going to Stop for No Train”: Expert Analysis of the Sumter County School Bus Crossing Incident The video is chilling, and for any parent in Lubbock, Texas, it is the ultimate nightmare. A school bus, carrying 29 students and two adults, approaches a railroad crossing. The driver, identified as 67-year-old Yvonne Hampton, is heard on the bus’s internal recording system making a statement that defies every safety protocol in existence: “Not going to stop for no train.” Seconds later, the unthinkable happened. A train clipped the bus. While we are incredibly grateful that no one was physically injured in this Sumter County, Florida incident, the legal and safety implications are massive. As veteran trucking and commercial vehicle litigation attorneys at Attorney911, we look at this not just as a “near miss,” but as a systemic failure of corporate and governmental oversight. If you are a parent in Lubbock County, you might think this is a Florida problem. It isn’t. Lubbock is a major hub for the BNSF Railway. Our school buses from Lubbock ISD, Frenship ISD, and Lubbock-Cooper ISD cross tracks every single day along corridors like US-84, I-27, and Loop 289. When a driver makes a conscious decision…