Coroner confirms Indy bus driver suffered heart attack

MARION COUNTY, Ind. -- The driver in a fatal school bus crashed suffered a heart before striking a bridge abutment.

According to the Marion County Coroner's Office, Thomas Spencer II, 50, suffered a heart attack that led to the crash in the 900 block of South Emerson Avenue on March 12. Spencer died of multiple blunt-force trauma injuries.

Also killed in the crash was Lighthouse Charter School kindergartner Donasty Smith. Ten other students were hospitalized.

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