WENTZVILLE • A Wentzville school district bus driver was on her cell phone, failed to signal, and violated a traffic signal when she pulled into the road and was struck by two motorcyclists, killing them, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed last week.
The suit was filed in St. Charles County Circuit Court against Wentzville School District, a bus driver, its school board members, and its director of transportation on behalf of one of the motorcyclists, Matthew A. Adam, 43, of Bowling Green. The suit was filed by his wife, Staci Adam of Bowling Green.
Adam and Jacob D. Boedeker, 22, of Warrenton, were killed while riding separate motorcycles on March 11 on Highway A at Westgate Business Court. Bus driver Pamela S. Love, then 52, of Wright City, turned left out of the district’s transportation facility and the motorcycles hit the driver’s side of the bus. A third motorcyclist struck crash debris and was thrown from his bike but was not injured.
The suit says the driver violated a traffic signal, was on the wrong side of the road, failed to yield, and was on her cell phone at the time of the crash. The suit also says the driver was operating under “reckless policies imposed upon her by her employer” that caused her to “routinely and repeatedly violate the traffic control devices as a mean of avoiding reprimands, penalties and termination” by the district.
The suit says school board members created and enforced the policies and said the rules required bus drivers to “always be running on schedule” and not to allow their times to “vary by more than two or three minutes.”
A spokesman from the Wentzville School District said they had not had a chance to review the lawsuit and would not comment on pending litigation.
Suit claims Wentzville school bus driver was on her cell phone at time of fatal motorcycle crash
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