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Five people, including three young children, have been killed in western Illinois after a school bus collided with another vehicle, authorities have said.. The incident occurred on a highway near ...
Authorities have identified the five people killed in a fiery collision between a school bus and semitruck on a highway in rural Illinois, including a young brother and sister, another 3-year-old ...
[4]: 3–4 The school bus involved in the accident was a 71-passenger school bus built by American Transportation Company (which was acquired by Navistar International at the time of the accident), and was owned and operated by School Districts 47 and 155 through a Transportation Joint Agreement. At the time of the accident, 35 students were on ...
Five Nyack High School students were killed 50 years ago in a school bus-train crash at this Gilcrest Road railroad crossing in Congers, photographed in 2021 on the 40th anniversary of the crash.
The incident occurred on a curve in US 13, 2.3 miles south of Snow Hill. At approximately 3:20 pm, Conger, driving his tractor-trailer northbound, crossed the center line and struck the school bus. Dawn, the driver of the bus tried to avoid the truck but a collision was inevitable, and the left side of the school bus was torn off. [2]
The train engineer saw the bus cross the tracks and immediately applied the brakes. However, the train's momentum carried it through the crossing, where it collided with the bus. The freight train ripped through the school bus, severing it into two sections, with the front half coming to rest a quarter mile (1,116 ft) down the tracks.
November 16 – China – Gansu school bus crash. A school bus collided head-on with a coal truck, killing 21. [123] December 1 – Philippines – A van slammed into a parked truck in Malungon, Sarangani, killing 13 and injuring five. [124] December 3 – Brazil – A truck and a bus collided near Milagro, Bahia, killing 33 and injuring 13. [125]
The community is rallying behind the Hays school district after 44 pre-K students and 11 adults from the Tom Green campus were involved in a bus crash Friday afternoon that killed a 5-year-old as ...