{"id":43609,"date":"2026-04-11T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43609"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:18:33","slug":"mothershipsg-yvonne-hampton-a-67-year-old-school-bus-driver-in-sumter-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43609","title":{"rendered":"@mothershipsg Yvonne Hampton, a 67-year-old school bus driver in Sumter County, &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Hampton, a 67-year-old school bus driver in Sumter County, Florida, was charged with reckless driving and 29 felony counts after ignoring warning lights and driving through a rail crossing as a train was coming. The shocking incident took place on Apr. 2, U.S. media reported. According to a student who was in the bus at the time, Hampton told her passengers, &#8220;I am not going to stop for a train&#8221;, before she drove across. The train clipped the rear of the bus but fortunately, no injuries were reported. Hampton, who had been a bus driver for the Sumter County School District for over 10 years, has since been dismissed. <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"mothershipnews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipnews?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipnews<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"mothershipabroad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipabroad?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipabroad<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7626329131914939157?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7626329073081421076\" data-video-id=\"7626329073081421076\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mothershipsg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@mothershipsg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Hampton, a 67-year-old school bus driver in Sumter County, Florida, was charged with reckless driving and 29 felony counts after ignoring warning lights and driving through a rail crossing as a train was coming. The shocking incident took place on Apr. 2, U.S. media reported. According to a student who was in the bus at the time, Hampton told her passengers, &#8220;I am not going to stop for a train&#8221;, before she drove across. The train clipped the rear of the bus but fortunately, no injuries were reported. Hampton, who had been a bus driver for the Sumter County School District for over 10 years, has since been dismissed. <a title=\"mothershipnews\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipnews?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipnews<\/a> <a title=\"mothershipabroad\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/mothershipabroad?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#mothershipabroad<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Mothership - Mothership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Mothership-7626329131914939157?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Mothership &#8211; Mothership<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tap Video and \ud83d\udd08 To Unmute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\/video\/7626329073081421076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok <\/a> Credits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mothershipsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@mothershipsg Yvonne Hampton, a 67-year-old school bus driver in Sumter County, Florida, was charged with reckless driving and 29 felony counts after ignoring warning lights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20266,3239,16165,4916,20265,1024,848,20267,18564],"class_list":["post-43609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-67yearold","tag-bus","tag-county","tag-driver","tag-hampton","tag-mothershipsg","tag-school","tag-sumter","tag-yvonne","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}