The 2005 Chippewa High School band bus crash will go to a Chippewa County Circuit Court jury trial in May. In October 2005 Michael Kozlowski overturned his semi,
blocking both lanes of I-94 north of Osseo and the bus struck the semi.
The defense maintains 78-year-old bus driver Paul Rasmus should have seen the overturned truck and
been able to stop in time. Rasmus, band director
Doug Greenhalgh, his wife Therese, their granddaughter Morgan, and
student teacher Branden Atherton were killed.
The defense relied on the testimony of an accident reconstruction expert in Kozlowski’s acquittal of criminal negligence but that expert has since died. An accident reconstruction done in the days immediately following the crash by state and national investigators will likely be included in the civil trial.
For more, see TheChippewaHerald.com.
The defense relied on the testimony of an accident reconstruction expert in Kozlowski’s acquittal of criminal negligence but that expert has since died. An accident reconstruction done in the days immediately following the crash by state and national investigators will likely be included in the civil trial.
For more, see TheChippewaHerald.com.
