Posted on 03/20/2016 3:04:51 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Griffith School District spokeswoman Katy Dowling says the vigil is planned for Sunday afternoon in Central Park in Griffith.
Superintendent Pete Morikis will provide an update on the incident at the service.
A bus carrying 27 members of the Griffith High School boys basketball team and their coaches was headed to a state tournament game Saturday when it was sideswiped by a car and rolled over in a ditch on Interstate 65.
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Oh no. Prayers up!
Driver who spilled drink caused rollover of high school bus on way to game
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A driver spilled a drink on herself and then sideswiped a school bus, causing it to roll over Saturday while it was carrying an Indiana high school basketball team to a game, Indiana State Police said.
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"She attempted to grab the drink, losing control of her vehicle and causing her to side swipe a Griffith School bus that was travelling in the right lane," according to a news release from the State Police. "The school bus after being hit went off the roadway to the west and rolled over."
Oh how terrible. Prayers
All 20 students were treated and released, as well as three coaches, the team trainer, a ball boy and the driver.
This is also helpful. Still Prayers up!
I’ve always wondered if something like this isn’t the cause of a lot of the frequent accidents on the north end of I-65. It’s pretty much a flat, straight road and, where this accident occurred, out in the boondocks.
Student Recalls Indiana School Bus Crash: 'Bodies Were Ricocheting Off the Bus'One of the Indiana high school students travelling in a bus Saturday that was overturned on Interstate 65 after being sideswiped by another vehicle, tells ABC News he feels lucky to be alive.
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He says it was about 45 minutes into the trip, while talking to a fellow teammate in the back of the bus, “and the next thing you know, we started swaying from the left and then to the right. But we were in the back, so we couldn’t see what was going on, on the road. And we were kind of in shock. When we turned to the right, we started flipping into a ditch, and as we were flipping, bodies were ricocheting off the bus. It was just crazy.”
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Schiele says passers-by were responsive to the students. “After we got out, everybody from the road contributed,” he says. “They turned around, and asked how we were doing and stuff like that. Thank God everyone was okay. Looking at the bus and pictures that I saw, it looked like nobody would have ever made it. The bus really looked like a pancake. It was really squished. God really made a way for us out of that bus.”
Prayers for the team and their families.
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