Seffner man arrested on charges related to March 2022 Inglis school bus crash
Photos of March 30, 2022 crash courtesy of FHP.
Levy County, Florida - On October 24, 2022, 35 year-old Frederick J. Campbell of Seffner, Florida was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol, as the result of Mr. Campbell crashing a 2019 International tractor/trailer into the rear of a Levy County school bus on Wednesday afternoon, March 30, 2022.
Mr. Campbell, who was not injured in the crash, was charged with reckless driving with serious bodily injury, failure to obey a traffic control device, failure to stop for a school bus, careless driving, falsification of time records, and operating a commercial motot vehicle in out-of-service condition
The school bus carried ten students. Five of the student passengers were transported to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, two of them in serious condition. The 56 year-old female school bus driver, an Inglis, Florida resident, suffered minor injuries
The crash occurred at 3:46 pm on U.S. Highway 19 at the Village Pines Mobile Home Community and RV Campground, located at 8053 SE 140th Lane, in Inglis, Florida. According to the FHP, the tractor-trailer was traveling behind the 2012 Thomas school bus, owned by the Levy County School District, both vehicles traveling north in the outside lane of U.S. Hwy. 19, when the school bus stopped at SE 140th Lane to discharge a passenger or passengers, with it's flashing red lights activated. However, Mr. Campbell failed to stop before the right side of the truck and the front side of the trailer collided with the rear of the school bus. After the impact, the school bus came to rest, facing north on U.S. Hwy. 19 in the outside lane, and the tractor-trailer came to rest on the east grass shoulder of U.S. Hwy. 19.