On the afternoon route, your bus collides with another vehicle. A parent stops at the scene and tells you that she will take her daughter home. Your best response is to
A. thank the parent and make a note that the child has left.
B. ask the parent to take to their homes a few of the other children who live near her.
C. ask the parent to wait until law enforcement officers have investigated the accident.
D. call the child's school to get permission from school officials to release the child to her mother.