Bus driver going on trial
A judge says a Greyhound bus driver from Chicago should face a trial in the death of a southern Illinois firefighter killed by the bus last summer on Interstate 57. After a preliminary hearing Wednesday in downstate Benton, 42-year-old Sammie Rogers was ordered to stand trial on a reckless homicide count filed against him in March. Authorities say the bus was heading north early on July 27 when it hit 43-year-old James Miller. Miller was a volunteer Sesser firefighter who had just helped douse a tractor-trailer blaze along the freeway. Rogers and the 51 passengers on the Memphis-to-Chicago bus were unhurt. Rogers also is charged with improper lane usage and failing to give emergency workers an appropriately wide berth.
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