{"id":18233,"date":"2026-05-30T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:43:54","slug":"teen-crashes-into-school-bus-and-dies-with-phone-in-hand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18233","title":{"rendered":"Teen crashes into school bus and dies with phone in hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>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<p>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":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>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. According to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18233\" title=\"Teen crashes into school bus and dies with phone in hand\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18233","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\/18233","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=18233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}