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Two Dead, 50 Injured in Missouri Bus Crash
JIM SALTER
Associated Press Writer
GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. - Two buses carrying high school band students to an amusement park were involved in a freeway wreck with a semi tractor and another passenger vehicle Thursday that left two people dead and dozens injured, officials said.
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Missouri Department of Transportation spokesman Jorma Duran confirmed the two deaths but could not immediately say whether the victims of the Interstate 44 crash about 10 a.m. near Gray Summit, 32 miles west of St. Louis, were riders on the school buses.
Ashley Wiehle, a spokeswoman for SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, said 36 kids were en route to the hospital. She said they appeared to be in good condition and were going to be examined as a precaution.
Six more children were taken to St. John's Mercy Medical Center but their injuries and their conditions were not known, hospital spokeswoman Bethany Pope said.
A spokeswoman at St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, Mo., said four other patients were taken there with minor injuries.
The buses were carrying St. James high school band students to the Six Flags amusement park roughly 10 miles from the crash scene.
Aerial footage of the wreckage showed the front end of one of the yellow school buses perched atop the back of the gray semi rig's cab. The second bus had smashed into a rear corner of the first bus. Firefighters were hosing down the mangled debris, and metal ladders provided access to the buses' windows.
Calls to the Franklin County Sheriff's Department were directed to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which did not immediately return calls and pages.
Duran said vehicles involved in the crash included what appeared to be a sports utility vehicle, which was crushed and hardly distinguishable while wedged below the bus that came to rest atop the semi tractor's cab.
Hours later, eastbound lanes of the freeway remained closed, forcing traffic in that direction to be detoured several miles around the wreckage.
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Associated Press writers Jim Suhr in St. Louis, Chris Blank in Jefferson City, and Heather Hollingsworth and Bill Draper in Kansas City contributed to this report.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Associated Press Writer
GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. - Two buses carrying high school band students to an amusement park were involved in a freeway wreck with a semi tractor and another passenger vehicle Thursday that left two people dead and dozens injured, officials said.
Related
Firegeezer: 2 School Buses Crash, 2 Dead – Over 35 Injured
Missouri Department of Transportation spokesman Jorma Duran confirmed the two deaths but could not immediately say whether the victims of the Interstate 44 crash about 10 a.m. near Gray Summit, 32 miles west of St. Louis, were riders on the school buses.
Ashley Wiehle, a spokeswoman for SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, said 36 kids were en route to the hospital. She said they appeared to be in good condition and were going to be examined as a precaution.
Six more children were taken to St. John's Mercy Medical Center but their injuries and their conditions were not known, hospital spokeswoman Bethany Pope said.
A spokeswoman at St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, Mo., said four other patients were taken there with minor injuries.
The buses were carrying St. James high school band students to the Six Flags amusement park roughly 10 miles from the crash scene.
Aerial footage of the wreckage showed the front end of one of the yellow school buses perched atop the back of the gray semi rig's cab. The second bus had smashed into a rear corner of the first bus. Firefighters were hosing down the mangled debris, and metal ladders provided access to the buses' windows.
Calls to the Franklin County Sheriff's Department were directed to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which did not immediately return calls and pages.
Duran said vehicles involved in the crash included what appeared to be a sports utility vehicle, which was crushed and hardly distinguishable while wedged below the bus that came to rest atop the semi tractor's cab.
Hours later, eastbound lanes of the freeway remained closed, forcing traffic in that direction to be detoured several miles around the wreckage.
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Associated Press writers Jim Suhr in St. Louis, Chris Blank in Jefferson City, and Heather Hollingsworth and Bill Draper in Kansas City contributed to this report.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Permalink Reply by Jason S. Turner on
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I had to look closely to see the passenger vehicle in the video. If you look closely, you'll find the passenger literally rolled in a ball in the rear of the semi rig under the first school bus. Anyways, my prayers are for the famillies.
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Permalink Reply by Joshua Gumpenberger on
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It was a very long stressful day. I know I was out there for 5 hours in gear. It was very sad. This is the second Fatal accident that I have worked in 6 months from the back up of traffic from the construction zone past this accident scene. It is a good thing the kids were in seperate buses. I feel that had they all been on the same bus there would have been a lot injuries! It is good that the kids were divided up. This is all just my opinion. But it was a tough day for us all!
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