A Denver public school bus driver, who crashed into a house last month injuring more than two dozen students, is no longer employed by the school district, officials said today.
Assistant superintendent for administrative services Andre Pettigrew would not elaborate on why Katherine Sierra, 58, no longer works there.
Sierra faces 25 counts of careless driving resulting in injury for each student hurt in the crash and the driver of a parked car who also was hit.
“Her last day was today,” Pettigrew said. “It’s all related to a personnel matter, and I’m not at liberty to discuss why in the press.”
Dean Vakas , director of transportation operations, told a local TV station that Sierra was fired for “negligence.”
Sierra lost control of the bus and smashed into a parked car before crashing into the front of a house at East Fifth Avenue and Albion Street .
No one on the bus suffered serious injuries.
Sierra is scheduled to appear for arraignment June 7 in Denver County Court.
