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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 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).
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The suit accuses the Prestonsburg Police Department, which operates the 911 call center, of failing to properly train call takers. In an interview, Prestonsburg’s current police chief, Ross ...
Prestonsburg police determined the products came from Quick Stop Smoke Shop Discount Tobacco and Vaping, which is within 1,000 feet of the high school, according to Prestonsburg police.
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. — Interview transcripts revealed new details about what happened the night of Amber Spradlin’s death, and one of the men charged has suspicions about another’s involvement.
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The Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster occurred February 28 barely two months after Blazer's acceptance of the Ashland School Board's request to name the new high school after him. 26 school children and the bus driver died when a school bus plunged into the Big Sandy River outside of nearby Prestonsburg, KY. At the time, it was the deadliest ...