Billy Ansel admits that even while he was following the school bus and waving to his children that morning, he was really thinking about Risa Walker, whose son is Sean, the boy with a learning disability. He was thinking of Risa and the affair they had been having, even though he was a friend of her husband's.
So, he's not really able to say what happened right before the bus went off the side of the road, because even though he was the only eye witness, his mind was somewhere else entirely. However, he can tell you every detail of what happened after the accident. How the bus swerved off the road, went over an embankment into a sand pit, slid across the ice and then how the freezing water swallowed up the rear.....
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