{"id":10774,"date":"2026-05-28T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:56:02","slug":"teen-crashes-into-school-bus-and-dies-with-phone-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=10774","title":{"rendered":"Teen crashes into school bus and dies with phone in hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2018, 17-year-old Katelyn Ray tragically lost her life in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi after crashing into the back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of a slowed school bus while reportedly using her phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She never hit the brakes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and first responders found the phone still in her hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, the dozen children on the bus were unharmed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but Katelyn died instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her story serves as a heartbreaking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reminder: no text or call is worth a life\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>put your phone away while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/signal-2026-01-09-024205-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7478\" style=\"width:20px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, 17-year-old Katelyn Ray tragically lost her life in Mississippi after crashing into the back of a slowed school bus while reportedly using her phone. She&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}