School bus driver 'hurt 12 kids by slamming brakes on when they kept pressing stop bell'

dailystar.co.uk:

Lewes Crown Court heard the Crown claims Wells yelled “F***ing stop ringing that bell” and then drove “faster than usual” before the sudden stop in Wallcrouch, near Wadhurst, East Sussex.The double-decker bus had allegedly been overloaded with 98 children, despite having a maximum capacity of 84, and many of them were left screaming in panic and desperately trying to phone their parents following the October 2018 incident, The Sun reports.A pole on the lower deck was ripped out as Wells braked and hit screaming children, the court heard.Wells then stepped over kids lying down to replace the pole before driving back to Uplands Community College, jurors heard.A 14-year-old hit by the pole while holding another said: “It felt like if I had let.