High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision refers to a grade crossing accident that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois on the morning of October 25, 1995. The school bus, driven by a substitute driver, was stopped at a traffic light with the rearmost portion extending onto a portion of the railroad tracks when it was struck by a Metra commuter train en route to Chicago.