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Collision site diagram of the 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision composed by NTSB. Seating chart of bus passengers with medical condition. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began an investigation on the crash in 1973 and completed a 38-page report on the collision. The report would be issued to the public in February 1974.
On a cold and cloudy morning, after a period of heavy rains and thaw, a Floyd County school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students bound for school in Prestonsburg, Kentucky struck the rear of a wrecker truck on U.S. Route 23 and fell down an embankment into the swollen waters of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, where it was swept downstream and submerged.
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]
The crash occurred around 7:10 a.m. when a westbound tour bus carrying 27 adults and one child overturned on the highway near Union Street, said Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter a a mid-morning ...
The bus was a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus, Stewart said. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mississippi bus crash in Warren County ...
HONG KONG — A bus crashed into a group of students and parents outside a school in eastern China on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, local police said.. Thirteen others were injured when the ...
The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third-deadliest bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus (counting the driver), there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29) and 1963 Chualar bus crash (32).
Regency Transportation Ltd., operator of the bus in the fatal New York I-84 crash, failed semi-annual inspections from the state Department of Transportation.