Six Young Students Unaccounted for More Than Four Hours After Brooklyn Bus Took Wrong Routes
Six nonverbal students aged 6-8 were unaccounted for for over four hours after their school bus in Brooklyn, New York City, took multiple incorrect routes, delaying their arrival at P.S. 289 significantly past the scheduled time.
New York, NY, October 19, 2026 —
Six nonverbal students, ages 6 to 8, were unaccounted for for more than four hours after a school bus in Brooklyn took multiple incorrect routes, delaying their arrival at P.S. 289 well beyond the scheduled time.
The students were traveling on a bus in New York City. The route errors prolonged the trip, but the available information does not specify where the bus traveled, when it was expected to arrive or when it reached the school. The date of the incident was also not provided.
The students’ names, the bus operator’s identity and the reason the bus took the incorrect routes were not provided. It is not clear from the available details how the students were ultimately accounted for, or what steps were taken during the delay.
No information was provided about whether families or school staff were notified, whether emergency services were contacted, or whether the incident prompted an investigation. The account also does not state whether any disciplinary action or changes to bus procedures followed.
The known details establish that six young students were unaccounted for for more than four hours and that multiple routing errors delayed the bus’s arrival at P.S. 289. Further information about the timeline, the response during the delay and the circumstances surrounding the route errors was not available.
Story summarized from the original created by By Gabriele Holtermann on www.amny.com, see more information here.
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