Kearney v. Vance Cty. B.O.E.

The majority in the present case provided a thorough recitation of case law regarding the duty of a school bus driver to assure that his passenger has reached "a place of safety" and is otherwise out of danger; however, the majority erred in failing to consider that even though a school bus driver's duty to his passenger may extinguish once the passenger is in the "place of safety," his duty to a child pedestrian, including one that may have been his passenger, does not extinguish. In the present case, Jeffrey Strong, the driver of the school bus, owed the decedent (a child pedestrian) the…