Trump offers condolences to victims in Tenn. bus crash

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his condolences to the families of the children who died in a bus crash in Tennessee on Monday.

“Bus crash in Tennessee so sad & so terrible,” Trump tweeted Tuesday night.

“Condolences to all family members and loved ones. These beautiful children will be remembered!”

Bus crash in Tennessee so sad & so terrible. Condolences to all family members and loved ones. These beautiful children will be remembered!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2016

{mosads}On Monday, a school bus driver in Tennessee was reportedly speeding and swerving before he crashed.

The crash killed at least five students. Three of the students killed were in the fourth grade and the other children were in kindergarten and first grade, according to The New York Times.

Thirty-seven students were on the bus when it crashed.

The school bus driver, Johnthony K. Walker, had been driving at a “high rate of speed,” the Times reported, according to an arrest affidavit.

Walker was charged with five counts of vehicular manslaughter.

“Mr. Walker lost control of the bus and swerved off the roadway to the right, striking an elevated driveway and mailbox, swerved to the left and began to overturn, striking a telephone pole and a tree,” the court filing said.