You hope the children weren't too rowdy? Who are you kidding of course they were!

In this situation I'd hope another bus would have come to pick the kids up. No need to have that many kids either sitting in a slanted bus or standing on the side of the road (Both of which are terribly unsafe).

Why does this have downvotes?

Unless it was on the way back...

But it says they were taking the kids to school

Why is this being downvoted? This was exactly my first thought as well.

If two people whose job is to drive in all conditions slides off the road, then yes. It's kind of obvious that the roads are that bad.

Even a tiny sheet of ice will can cause a vehicle to slide off a sloped roadway. You just slide down there is nothing you can do to stop it. Seeing as both a bus and tow truck slid, I'm assuming it was pure ice, no slush and snow. I did it in my car and called my husband to come pull me out, his Jeep did the same thing, but he was able to manouver out after he melted the ice and got some traction. Four wheel drive does nothing on ice, just means all four wheels are spinning on ice.

For the record, I wasn't saying this to try to be funny. I was making a legitimate observation. Not sure why that got me thumbs-downed, but whatever.