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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Countless HS bands make this trip every year.
http://weartv.com/news/local/breaking-tour-bus-drives-into-ravine-52-on-board
Our Local TV NEWS.................
There are many accidents on that stretch of I-10, almost all due to drivers falling asleep at the wheel. The whole way from Tallahassee to Mobile is the most boring stretch.................
Oh, Lord. Prayers.
Thats not a ravine. Thats a man made interstate overpass.
https://www.facebook.com/jesus.tejeda.1806/videos/1982445765160869/
It’s an overpass above Cow Pens Creek. I spent 2.5 hrs in dead stopped traffic on 10 this morning. Horrific scene. Every first responder in Baldwin County must have been there.
We drive to Pensacola and Fort Walton monthly to visit family. That stretch at night on the way back is a bear and there is not much around after Marianna to even stop and eat.
The bridge was built to traverse the ravine that was there.
How do you have a deep ravine in a county that is inches above sea level?
Lots of marsh and swamp along there, as I recall.
Glad the creek wasnt ‘up’.
Alabama is like driving on the ocean floor. Dizzying hill after breathtaking valley.
Dang. that’s a long way down. Prayers.
Happened at 5:30 am. Sadly, suspected as much. They were driving straight through so driver likely fell asleep.
Yep, We go visit our relatives in Jax and Palm Bay and I used to have to go to see a doctor at Shands University of FL at Gainesville twice a month. That stretch of road is definitely a killer. I have seen people run off the road and swerve back on many times................
I used to drive passenger coaches to transport kids to a Christian camp. It was about 500 miles each way from our start point near Detroit to the camp in the middle of the Upper Peninsula. To get the kids to camp at lunchtime on Saturday, we would depart about 2am Saturday morning.
The first driver shift was OK because the kids were all excited to see old friends and loud. We would make a pickup at about 3:30am. The shift was quiet, dark and boring. We always made sure the guy riding shotgun was awake to keep an eye on the driver just to be sure. Easy time to drop off.
I would bet on it, that road is terrible for sleepy drivers. There have been many wrecks on it for only that reason.................
75 can be fun too! That’s like a Nascar track from Lake City to Orlando.
Yep! Driven it many times!
No sleepy time there!...............
What time ? Did the daylight savings change put them in darkness where last week it was light at the time ?
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