A school bus carrying about 30 students careened off a road in Prince George’s County this morning. The accident scene is seen to the right in this NBC4 photo. The Post reports none of the passengers were seriously hurt, as “everyone on board walked away with little more than bumps, bruises and jangled nerves,” although NBC4 reports “students hit the windows and went flying over seats.” The accident was apparently caused when the driver of the bus was distracted while talking on her cell phone, and NBC4 reported the school district had issued regulations that “discourage” bus drivers from talking on cell phones but not banning it.

When we attended the WMATA town hall in November, a member of the public asked about cell phone use by Metrobus operators, sparking this interesting exchange from the (100-page PDF) transcript. During the “off-microphone comments” audience members infomed the WMATA board bus drivers use cell phones):