Students told to climb under train car at bus stop in Alabama

TALLADEGA COUNTY, Ala. —

Children in Talladega County, Alabama, were told to crawl under a train after getting off the school bus to get home on Wednesday.

It happened at a train track crossing in Mardisville, east of Birmingham, where six kids usually get off at the stop and the parents park nearby to pick them up.

On Wednesday, a train was blocking the road.

Parents assumed they'd have to wait for the train to move before the kids got off the bus, but they were let off.

One of the children's fathers described the moment he saw the kids crawling out from underneath the train.

“I seen kids pop up from under the train, I’m like, 'I know y'all ain't coming up from under that train.' And they were like, 'He told us to do it.' So I’m like, 'Who is he?' And he popped up like in between, y