Every Oct. 25 for the past 30 years, I’ve stopped and thought about the tragic event of 1995.

That was the morning when a speeding Metra train struck the back of a school bus carrying 35 high school students. Seven of them died as a result. All but four of the rest were injured.

The Cary-Grove High School students who died were Jeffrey Clark, 16; Stephanie Fulham, 15; Susanna Guzman; 18; Michael Hoffman, 14; Joe Kalte, 16: Shawn Robinson, 14; and Tiffany Schneider, 15.

A substitute bus driver was driving that day when she crossed the train tracks at Algonquin Road and Route 14 in Fox River Grove. When she had to stop for red light just past the tracks, she didn’t realize that the back of the bus was still on the tracks.

When the train struck the bus, it knocked the body of the bus off

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