Several Fayetteville Bus Crash Victims Still Hospitalized, Two Remain In Critical Condition

Jill Adams, 15, and Patricia Mathis,16, are being treated at Shands-JacksonvilleMedical Center. Trauma Surgeon Miren Schinco said that both students are in critical, but stable condition with head injuries. Officials say bothstudents are making progress.

Another child is still listed in fair condition, though she is awakeand alert and interacting with her family. Two other children arelisted in stable condition.

All five children who went to the operating room Friday willrequire several trips to the operating room for, at thevery least, repeat orthopedic surgeries.

About 46 people were on the bus headed to Florida toparticipate in theAll-AmericanMusic Festivalof Orlando, an international band and choral competition, when the accident occurred.About two dozen were injured.

Students on board the charter bus say the driver, Darol Wayne Britt, 38,of Fayetteville, appeared tobe too tired to drive safely. They say he swerved across the road severaltimes before the wreck.

"When we had stopped at the rest stop, he took a nap. He was leaning onthe steering wheel and slept the whole 30 minutes," says student GrantCates.

Britt's family says he is an experienced driver who always gotenough rest before a job.

"He had about five-and-a-half to six hours of sleep before he left. He did have sleep before he left on that trip," says Melissa Dalton, Britt's niece.

Britt is being detained at a Georgia jail.