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By the time the engineer saw the bus, there wasn't enough time for the brakes to slow down the train. [2] The ensuing collision killed 24 on the bus, including Silcox. 15 students managed to survive the crash, but with serious injuries. It is the worst railroad crossing accident involving a school bus in U.S. history. [3]
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatal Accident Reporting System, the Alton crash was the sole school bus accident in the United States in the period 1979–1989 in which passengers died due to submersion-related causes. [1] As of 2010 it is the deadliest school bus accident that had ever occurred in Texas.
At 7:30 A.M. on September 21, 1989, a Coca-Cola truck hit a Mission school bus, knocking it into a gravel pit at the corner of Five-Mile Road and Bryan Road. Twenty-one children from the Alton area were drowned, and 49 [1] were injured. This was the worst school bus accident to date in Texas history.
Four people suffered injuries when Abilene Christian’s bus was involved in a crash after the team’s 52-51 overtime loss at Texas Tech on Saturday night.. According to a statement from the FCS ...
The accident, which left the school bus on its side, unfolded around 2 p.m. on State Highway 21 in Bastrop County, Texas, northeast of Austin, the state capital, police and fire officials said.
Two people, including a child, were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a school bus without seatbelts and filled with pre-K students crashed in rural Texas on Friday, authorities said.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dash camera video released Thursday by a Texas school district shows the moment a cement truck veered into oncoming traffic, hitting a school bus carrying more than 40 pre-K students returning from a zoo field trip. The deadly collision on March 22 sends the bus rolling over on a rural highway outside Austin.
Two people, including a child, were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a school bus carrying pre-K students crashed in Texas, authorities said.