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The 1938 South Jordan rail crossing disaster was a collision between a school bus and a train at a level crossing resulting in the deaths of 24 people, 23 of whom were students on their way to school. The accident is the basis for an urban legend in San Antonio, Texas. [1]
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 board.
The Snow Hill school bus collision was a vehicle accident that occurred on May 31, 1985, on US 13 near Snow Hill, North Carolina. Four vehicles were involved, including a school bus operated by the Greene County Schools. [2] Six students and Carson Lee Conger, 27, of Norfolk, Virginia, were killed. The remaining 24 persons in the accident ...
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.
The accident caused the 100-bed hospital to be filled to capacity. Medical personnel, supplies, and blood were rushed in from nearby Edmonton in response to the crash. [11] Classes resumed at Lamont High on December 1, 1960. [12] Caskets of the victims were taken to Chipman School auditorium on December 2, 1960 for a memorial service.
During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.
The boy, identified as 12-year-old Eli Bradley, was a student at William James Middle School, according to the coroner’s office. Eli was taken to a hospital, where he died just before 8 a.m.
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.