{"id":17714,"date":"2026-05-26T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17714"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:36:17","slug":"teen-crashes-into-school-bus-and-dies-with-phone-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17714","title":{"rendered":"Teen crashes into school bus and dies with phone in hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old girl left home before sunrise to pick up her sister from work \u2014 but moments later, a tragic crash changed everything.<\/p>\n

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According to investigators, Katelyn Ray never saw the slowed school bus ahead because she was distracted by her phone. There were no skid marks, no attempt to brake \u2014 only a devastating collision that killed her instantly.<\/p>\n

The children on the bus survived, but Katelyn\u2019s family was left shattered by the heartbreaking loss. Her story has since become a powerful warning about the deadly dangers of distracted driving and how a few seconds on a phone can change lives forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old girl left home before sunrise to pick up her sister from work \u2014 but moments later, a tragic crash changed everything. 191 According […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17716,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17714\/revisions\/17716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}