The Nation - News from Aug. 11, 1985

A $21,000 bond was set for a bus driver charged in a crash that claimed the lives of seven youths who were on their way to a Bruce Springsteen concert in Chicago. David Johnson, a driver for the Chicago Transit Authority, faces seven counts of reckless homicide as a result of Friday’s crash. Fifty-one persons were also slightly injured in the traffic accident. Although several bus passengers came to Johnson’s defense, saying that the car swerved in front of the bus, police received “many” telephone calls from regular passengers of the bus line, who complained that drivers regularly speed on their routes.