COVINGTON, GA : GSP identifies victims in crash involving Newton County school bus on Monday, 19th September 2016

A man and two children were fatally injured in a head-on collision with a Newton County school bus Monday afternoon.

There were no students on the bus at the time of the accident, and the bus driver was not injured in the accident that occurred at about 3 p.m.

According to the Georgia State Patrol, Sammie Lee Sawyer Almore Jr., 37, of Covington was driving a BMW passenger car northbound on Ga. Highway 162 when the vehicle crossed the centerline and struck the southbound school bus. The accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 162 and Spring Valley Way.

Almore was killed, along with 9-year-old Daysean Mark Green and 6-month-old Malcolm Christian-Worthey. Both children were passengers in the rear seat of the car.

Injured in the accident were a 39-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the front seat, and a 7-year-old girl, who was identified as Green’s sister, who was in the rear seat. They were taken to Atlanta area hospitals for treatment.

According to the GSP, none of the occupants of the car was wearing a seatbelt.

The Newton County School System said Tuesday that Green was a fourth-grader at Rocky Plains Elementary School and his sister is a second-grader at the school.

“Faculty and staff at Rocky Plains Elementary are grieving right now, and we know that many students may also have difficulty receiving this news,” the school system said in a released statement Tuesday afternoon. “Counselors are on hand to provide support to anyone emotionally affected, and they will remain at the school as long as necessary. In addition, the school system is providing support to our transportation team, as they are also struggling as a result of (Monday’s) tragic accident.”

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GSP identifies victims in crash involving Newton County school bus