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Jack DePietro was sitting in homeroom at Nyack High School early on the morning of March 24, 1972, when he heard there had been an accident involving one of the school’s buses. “It took a while for everybody to find out the extent of it,” DePietro recalled. “The news came kind of slowly at first, just that a bus had crashed.” The tragedy would later claim two more lives and be remembered as the worst ever involving a New York state school bus. The bus was split in two during the 7:55 a.m. crash, with one section dragged more than...

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...

The San Antonio Independent School District has released video footage from inside a special-needs bus that plummeted off an I-37 overpass last week.

Just on!! School bus collides with tractor-trailer. Seven dead....5 are kids.

LIBERTY, Mo.  — A school bus crashed in suburban Kansas City Monday morning, and early reports indicated 30 or more children were injured. The accident happened around 8 a.m. A view from a television helicopter showed the damaged bus in a grassy area near the intersection of highways 291 and 152. The children were from the Liberty School District (search) in Clay County (search), but a district spokesman did not immediately know the ages of the children or what school they were en route to. Broadcast reports said the bus was headed to an elementary school. Two air paramedics treated others...