Rhino
03-02-2007, 08:42 AM
At Least 6 Dead After Charter Bus Carrying Baseball Team Falls From Bridge in Georgia
Friday, March 02, 2007
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ATLANTA — A charter bus carrying an Ohio college baseball team plunged off an interstate ramp early Friday and slammed into the highway below, killing six people, injuring 29 and scattering sports equipment across the road, authorities said.
Four students were killed along with the bus driver and his wife, the Atlanta police department's public information officer said.
At least three people were listed in critical condition.
The bus, carrying the team from Bluffton University, a Mennonite-affiliated school south of Toledo, toppled off the Northside Drive bridge on Interstate 75 in clear, pre-dawn weather, police spokesman Joe Cobb said.
It crashed onto a pickup truck.
"When I saw the thing coming, I think I closed my eyes and stepped on the gas," said Danny Lloyd, who was driving the truck and escaped uninjured. "It looked to me like a big slab of concrete falling down."
The impact broke his windshield, pushed his truck into the concrete and wrecked the front bumper, said, Lloyd, 57, of Frostburg, Md.
Firefighters pulled people through the roof of the bus, which landed on its side......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256025,00.html
Friday, March 02, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/030207_bus_crash_ap.jpg
ATLANTA — A charter bus carrying an Ohio college baseball team plunged off an interstate ramp early Friday and slammed into the highway below, killing six people, injuring 29 and scattering sports equipment across the road, authorities said.
Four students were killed along with the bus driver and his wife, the Atlanta police department's public information officer said.
At least three people were listed in critical condition.
The bus, carrying the team from Bluffton University, a Mennonite-affiliated school south of Toledo, toppled off the Northside Drive bridge on Interstate 75 in clear, pre-dawn weather, police spokesman Joe Cobb said.
It crashed onto a pickup truck.
"When I saw the thing coming, I think I closed my eyes and stepped on the gas," said Danny Lloyd, who was driving the truck and escaped uninjured. "It looked to me like a big slab of concrete falling down."
The impact broke his windshield, pushed his truck into the concrete and wrecked the front bumper, said, Lloyd, 57, of Frostburg, Md.
Firefighters pulled people through the roof of the bus, which landed on its side......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256025,00.html