UPDATE: Channelview ISD confirms the tour bus that crashed into a ravine in Alabama this morning was carrying band students from Channelview High School.
A family member tells KHOU 11 the high schoolers were from Channelview and on their way back home to Texas after a trip to Disney, but Channelview ISD has not yet confirmed this information.
LOXLEY, Ala. (AP) - Authorities in Alabama say a charter tour bus carrying students on a school trip from Houston, Texas, has plunged into a ravine, with multiple injuries reported.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office Major Anthony Lowery said the bus plunged off Interstate 10 into a deep ravine Tuesday morning, and multiple helicopters are responding
WKRG-TV is reporting that 12 to 20 people have been injured, and that officials say the bus was returning to Houston from a school trip.
WEAR-TV reports that the charter bus was carrying at least 52 people and the crash happened around 6 a.m.
Sheriff Huey Moss Mack says both lanes on the interstate have been closed. Traffic has been diverted and Alabama State troopers are asking people to avoid the area.
Charter bus carrying students from Texas plunges into Alabama ravine; injuries reported, I-10 closed
I-10 east of mobile al closed...
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by drvrtech77, Mar 13, 2018.
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That's down by my parents. Have to call them
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1 fatality, the driver, and 1 critical. There have been unconfirmed reports of the driver having had a heart attack prior to running off the road between the two bridges.
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I will never trust another driver past 3 or 4 hours in the nighttime hours. And again, remember. We did this stupid daylight savings time change a few days ago.PacoTaco and lovesthedrive Thank this. -
That is the one thing I fear with busses. Taking a nap and then finding out your down a rvine or worse in a river.
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I don't know if he was with the tour group from start to finish or was just brought in for the return trip.PacoTaco Thanks this. -
Like on national lampoons vacation when the whole family was asleep including Clark?
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Still no determination of the driver having a medical issue or not but here is the NTSB's preliminary investigation results.
NTSB releases preliminary report on Loxley tour bus crashAll4Safety Thanks this.
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