Vigil in Aliquippa mourns a faculty bus driver who was killed in an accident on I-79

YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT THE T PEOPLE START COLLECTING THE BALLOONS OF THE PHOTOMONTAGE SILVER BALLOONS AND BLACK BALLOONS FROM MOURNGNI PUT UP MUGS FOR CANDLE LIGHT A THE VIGIL WILL FOLLOW THE TWO HOURS HERE. NOTHING HERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SCHOOL BUS DRIVER IS TO SAY DIED IN THE CRASH WE CAN TELL YOU THAT LINDSEY TOMPKINS DEER LIVED IN THIS ALIQUIPP. WHERE THE VIGIL IS HDEL NEIGHBORS WILL REMEMBER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. A REAL COOL MAN. HE WAS YOUNG AND 31 YEARS OLD. IN MANY DREAMS HE HAS BEEN PROCEDURES MANY MANY. YOU KNOW HE WANTED TO BUY A CHARTERBUS AND DO HIS OWN BUSINESS. HE BUYED THAT HE DOES THAT HE WAS TOO YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEY KNOW I WAS A REALLY GOOD DAD. HE WAS ALWAYS COMING AND GOING TO WORK. UETR EVERYONE IT WAS TUESDAY THAT THE SCHOOL BUS TOMPKINS ON I-79 IN BUTLER COUNTY TOMPKINS collided with the back of a TRACTOR TRAILER and 14-year-old RILEY WALKER AS A STUDENT ATIN LCOLN PARK PERFORMING THE KANDRETS MIDBY LONDON NEIGHBORS HERE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO KNOW TOMPKINS ANDIS H FAMILY SINCE THEY MEDOV HERE 14 YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS A DUCK, WE WERE COMPLETELY SHOCKED. WE SEEN A PICTURE AND WE SAY BOY. IT LOOKED FAMILIAR, AND THEN WHEN WE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LIKE, OH MY GOOD. MY HEART WAS BROKEN. I just cried. THE OERWN OF THEUS B COMPANIES TOMPKINS WORKING FOR RJ RHODES TRANSIT CALLED THE DEADLY CRASH DEVASTIC AND LIKELY AS THEY CAN SEE MORE PEOPLE STARTING HERE FOR THIS VENTIL. WE HAVE FULL coverage of what is happening here in the morning and what is being expressed here. AND AS BOB BENSON, BRILEY WALKER WAS THE OTHER VICTIM KILLED IN THE TTHA Crash on I-79. VISIT IS MORNING AND SUNDAY TO SHERMAN FUNERAL H

Vigil in Aliquippa mourns a school bus driver who was killed in an accident on I-79

It was Tuesday when the school bus Thompkins was driving hit the rear of a semi-trailer on Interstate 79 in Butler County.

Updated: 7:03 PM EDT November 5, 2021

Family, friends and neighbors gathered on Friday night for a vigil outside the home of Lindsay Thompkins, who was killed along with a student when the school bus he was driving crashed into the back of a semi-trailer on I-79 with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 had nothing but good things to say about him. “A really cool guy. He was young – 31 years old. He was very busy, he had a lot of dreams. He wanted to buy a charter bus and run his own business. He bought that, he did that. He had two young children and he was a really good father. He always came and went, worked, ”said neighbor Arthur Liberty Butler County. Thompkins and 14-year-old Brylee Walker, a student at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, were also killed in the impact. The deaths stunned Thompkins’ neighbors, especially those who had known him and his family since they moved into their Tyler Street home 14 years ago when he was a teenager. “We were totally shocked. We saw a picture and said, ‘Boy, he looked familiar’ and when we found out, we thought, ‘Oh, my goodness’,” said neighbor Denise Majewski. “My heart was broken. I just cried,” said neighbor Bernadette Yazevac.

Family, friends and neighbors gathered on Friday evening for a vigil outside the home of Lindsay Thompkins, who was killed along with a student when the school bus he was driving crashed into the back of a semi-trailer on I-79.

Neighbors who spoke to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 had nothing but good things to say about him.

“A really cool guy. He was young – 31 years old. He was very busy, he had a lot of dreams. He wanted to buy a charter bus and run his own business. He bought that, he did. He had two young children and was a really good father. He always came and went, worked, “said neighbor Arthur Liberty.

It was Tuesday when the school bus Thompkins was driving hit the rear of a semi-trailer on Interstate 79 in Butler County. Thompkins and 14-year-old Brylee Walker, a student at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, were also killed in the impact.

The deaths stunned Thompkins’ neighbors, especially those who have known him and his family since they moved to their Tyler Street home 14 years ago when he was a teenager.

“We were totally shocked. We saw a picture and said, ‘Boy, he looked familiar’ and when we found out. We thought, ‘Oh, my goodness’,” said neighbor Denise Majewski.

“My heart was broken. I just cried,” said neighbor Bernadette Yazevac.

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