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On a cold and cloudy morning, after a period of heavy rains and thaw, a Floyd County school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students bound for school in Prestonsburg, Kentucky struck the rear of a wrecker truck on U.S. Route 23 and fell down an embankment into the swollen waters of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, where it was swept downstream and submerged.
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Aurora Fire Rescue in Colorado is praising a school bus driver for successfully evacuating more than a dozen children from the vehicle after it caught fire on Aug. 14, 2024. No injuries were reported.
The bus involved in the crash was a former school bus, configured with a bus body mated to a medium-duty truck chassis and frame. The 1977 model-year Ford B700 chassis was mated to a Superior school bus body.
April 26 – Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck near Tijuana killed 30 people and injured 10 to 15. [78] May 22 – Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Chiapas state killed 33 people. [79] September 29 – Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Toledo Province killed at least 25 people. [80]
It is speculated that the driver was blinded by the sun. It was also reported that the train was blowing its horn prior to the strike, but it was difficult to hear in the bus. [6] The impact caused the bus to hit a metal pole, sheering it in half; the train dragged the front half a kilometer down the tracks before the train was able to stop. [3]
The bus was carrying 44 passengers, 38 school students from pre-school to middle school years and 6 teachers. An explosion of the right front wheel's tire [5] resulted in the vehicle losing control and crashing into a roadside barrier. A fire began in the lower section of the bus, which was powered by natural gas. [6]
The bus was returning from an event at a Christian church in Fundación. The bus was having problems, so the driver stopped and attempted to fix them. He began pouring fuel into the engine through the floor of the cabin. [4] This, along with a gasoline container that was already inside the bus, set the bus on fire.