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At least two dead in military bus crashGARDENS CORNER, S.C. -- At least two people are dead after a bus carrying Navy personnel to Beaufort for a memorial service was involved in an accident Friday morning.
Authorities say a number of people were hurt in the wreck about 8 a.m. Friday on U.S. 17 near Gardens Corner, S.C. Authorities say a number of people were hurt in the wreck about 8 a.m. on U.S. 17 near Gardens Corner.
Charleston Naval Weapons Station spokeswoman Susan Piedfort says four or five buses were carrying Navy personnel from the guided missile destroyer William Pinckney to a wreath-laying ceremony at the Beaufort National Cemetery.
Public Safety Department spokesman Side Gaulden a bus and another vehicle were involved in the crash.
It is not immediately clear whether the victims were on the bus or in the other vehicle.
The U.S.S. Pinckney is visiting South Carolina this week.
Pinckney was a Beaufort native who won the Navy's second-highest honor for saving the life of a shipmate during a Japanese attack on the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in 1942.
Pinckney died in 1975 and is buried at the cemetery.
Praying.
GARDENS CORNER, S.C. — A bus carrying Navy personnel struck another vehicle Friday and at least two people were killed and several others injured, authorities said.
Details of the 8 a.m. accident about 50 miles west of Charleston were not immediately clear. State public safety officials said only that the bus collided with another vehicle. It was also not immediately known whether the victims were on the bus or in the other vehicle.
Charleston Naval Weapons Station spokeswoman Susan Piedfort said she understood a Navy bus, one of a caravan of four or five on the way to a ceremony, collided with a tractor-trailer truck.
She said the convoy was traveling from the guided missile destroyer William Pinckney (search) in Charleston to Beaufort National Cemetery (search) for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the destroyer's namesake. The ceremony was part of events leading up to the upcoming formal commission of the destroyer.
Pinckney, who is credited with saving the life of a shipmate during a Japanese attack on the carrier Enterprise in 1942, died in 1975.
Another ceremony, scheduled to take place on the ship itself, was canceled, Piedfort said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114057,00.html
Prayers going out for the mourners of the USS Pinckney Sailors involved in this bus crash, and for their friends and loved ones.
