There is nothing in the Indiana High School Athletic Association bylaws that refers to the situation following the Griffith school bus accident on Saturday.
“I’ve been in the (IHSAA) office for 16 years and it’s never happened,” IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox said Monday at the state finals media day at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. “It’s very unprecedented and quite scary actually. The reality of the thousands of trips that our schools take across 20 sports ... it’s amazing that it hasn’t happened before.”
The bus, carrying 27 passengers to Lafayette for Griffith’s Class 3A semistate basketball game against Marion, overturned into a ditch on Saturday afternoon on southbound I-65 after it was sideswiped by another vehicle.