School Bus Wrongful Death: 12-Year-Old Brayden Callahan Killed in Rockland, Knox County, Maine When the Crossing Arm Failed to Deploy and the Bus Ran Him Over in a Marked Crosswalk — Attorney911 Pursues the School District for Negligent Retention of a Driver With Two Prior Bus Crashes and the Bus and Crossing-Arm Manufacturers Under FMVSS 131, We Pull the Camera Footage and ECM Data Before the 30-Day DVR Overwrite, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, When a Misdemeanor Plea Is All the Criminal System Offers, Product-Liability Claims Open a Path Outside Maine’s Tort Claims Act Damage Caps — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
When the School Bus Becomes the Danger: What Happened in Rockland and What It Means for Your Family If your child was killed by a school bus — the vehicle that is supposed to be the safest way to get them to and from school — you have been failed by more than a driver. You have been failed by a system that put someone behind the wheel who should not have been there, that failed to maintain the one safety device engineered to prevent exactly your child’s death, and that will now try to cap what your family can recover at a number a legislature wrote decades ago. We are Attorney911. We handle school bus wrongful death cases. We are writing this for one purpose: so that the next family who searches for answers after a school bus kills a child finds the truth about what happened, who is responsible, what Maine law allows, and what the law tries to take away from you. On November 21, 2025, a 12-year-old boy named Brayden Callahan stepped off a Regional School Unit 13 school bus on Broadway — Route 1A — at the intersection of Eliza Steele Drive in Rockland, Knox…