School bus driver suing WeGo after head-on collision with Nashville city bus in August

The driver of a charter school bus is suing local transit authorities and the driver of a city bus that collided with hers as she was driving children to school last month. The suit alleges the other bus driver fell asleep at the wheel.

On the morning of Aug. 29, a WeGo bus drifted into oncoming traffic on Elm Hill Pike and collided head-on with a RePublic High School bus, causing two SUVs to rear-end the school bus. Police reported at the time that seven people, including three children on the school bus, were injured in the crash.

Keyontae McEwen was driving the school bus that day, and she says that she suffered fractured ribs, a traumatic brain injury, neck injury, back injury, bruised legs and a sprained knee in the crash, according to her lawsuit.

McEwen is suing Tyler Henning, the driver of the WeGo bus; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Davidson Transit Organization. She's seeking up to $1,00,000 in compensation for her physical pain, emotional suffering, lost wages, health care costs and other damages.

McEwen accuses Henning of negligence and violating a handful of traffic statutes, and she accuses MTA and DTO of negligence for failing to train, supervise and monitor WeGo bus drivers. MTA owns the buses and contracts with DTO to provide its drivers, who are DTO employees.

McEwen is represented by Nashville attorneys Isaac Kimes, Gerard Stranch and Caleb Harbison of Stranch, Jennings & Garvey, PLLC.

A WeGo spokesperson said "WeGo won't comment about pending legal matters." Henning does not yet have an attorney listed in online court records.

Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for The Tennessean. Contact him at emealins@gannett.com or follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @EvanMealins.

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