Episode
S6 Ep7: Reckless Disregard: The Carrollton Bus Crash
- Podcast
- Crimes of the Centuries
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- Apr 13, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3287
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Summary
In May 1988, a church bus returning to Kentucky was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. Within seconds, it became an inferno. As families searched for answers, an unsettling truth emerged: The children had been trapped inside a bus never designed to protect them. The Carrollton bus tragedy is a story about how grief collided with corporate power, government delay tactics and America’s evolving reckoning with drunken driving.