Posted on 03/13/2018 7:34:04 AM PDT by bgill
A charter bus carrying students home to Texas from a high school band trip to Disney World plunged into an Alabama ravine early Tuesday, and numerous children were being carried by helicopters to emergency rooms. According to CBS News affiliate WKRG-TV, one passenger was killed in the crash, and 12 to 20 others sustained injuries. The bus was reportedly carrying at least 52 people. "We have multiple injuries; the bus went down into a ravine," said Chris Elliott, a Baldwin County commissioner who helped out at the county emergency management center following the crash. "The fire department and officers are having to rappel down into the area to get into it."
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The whole way from Tallahassee to Mobile is the most boring stretch.................
I like driving that part of I-10 the panhandle. It’s an easy drive with good pit stops once you get past Pensacola. I-10 is much worse in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, etc.
Prayers up!
Time to ban buses!
We used to go thru Orlando to get to Palm Bay, but now we bypass all the tolls and get on SR40 at Ocala and cross over to I-95 at Ormond Beach and head south from there..................
5:30 local Time.................
OH, my. Prayers up. Sad.
Looks like a hideous fall. Time change disorientation?
Schools often ask such traveling bus drivers to do too much spread out over too long a day.
Texas has a lot of ‘Coyote’ bus lines that cater to the illegal and gambling crowds.
What difference does DST make?
They were driving straight through-———a week ago the accident would have happened at 4:00 AM. Dark either way.
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And you wanna bet?
Prayers up,
That looks pretty bad.
Tour buses, the scourge of the highways. Seem to always be driving recklessly. Speed limit and lane restrictions need to apply to them, they should not be able to run the fast lanes and must adhere to speed limit for trucks would be a good start.
Just horrible. :(
These were high school band members.
The entire Gulf Coast is one of my least favorite places in the country.
I remember driving between New Orleans and Houston, while it rained, and at one point for nearly an hour we had water up to the front bumper of the car, with no shoulder and everyone, including us, afraid to stop or drive faster than about 25MPH - just kept moving and praying. Vowed I would never make that car trip again, at any time, for any reason.
While in HSmy daughters band bussed from MD to Disney. She said the driver was going so fast she feared for her life. I had a family member pick her up and flew her home. The buses that travel between NY and DC are the same no Matter what the weather conditions.
There is a little water down there. Nothing like it was last week though when we had all that rain.
That would have made everything infinitely worse.
Good chance lives were saved with that choice...
Lynyrd Skynyrd was such a loss.
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