
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100135
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                                LENGTH: Short

SCHOOL BUS HITS HOMES; DRIVER FORCED TO RESIGN

A school bus driver whose parked bus slipped out of gear and caused $20,000 in damage to two houses said she will not fight the city's move to fire her.

Valerie Outland was forced to resign Friday after the 1973 bus she left running outside her home with her three children aboard jumped a curb and clipped one neighbor's house before ramming into the living room of another.

No one was hurt in the accident.

"It's me against the city, so I don't think I could win it," Outland said. She added that although the bus is old, "I just feel like it's my fault."

Outland said the bus slipped out of park after she stepped out to investigate a noise that began when she started the vehicle Thursday for her morning run to Churchland Junior High School. - Associated Press

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