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Five Nyack High School students were killed 50 years ago in a school bus-train crash at this Gilcrest Road railroad crossing in Congers, photographed in 2021 on the 40th anniversary of the crash.
Illinois State Police Troop 6 Captain Jody Huffman told a news conference that both vehicles caught on fire in the crash. All four people aboard the bus from Schuyler-Industry Schools — three ...
A male kindergarten student and his mother were killed when they were struck by a bus while walking to school on Thursday.
By the time the engineer saw the bus, there wasn't enough time for the brakes to slow down the train. [2] The ensuing collision killed 24 on the bus, including Silcox. 15 students managed to survive the crash, but with serious injuries. It is the worst railroad crossing accident involving a school bus in U.S. history. [3]
The school district also canceled school the following Monday so that members of the community could attend the memorial service that was held for Aiden Clark. [6] It was later found that Joseph, a legal Haitian immigrant, did not have a valid Ohio Driver's license at the time of the accident. [7]
The school bus involved in the accident was a 71-passenger school bus built by American Transportation Company (which was acquired by Navistar International at the time of the accident), and was owned and operated by School Districts 47 and 155 through a Transportation Joint Agreement. At the time of the accident, 35 students were on board.
A local middle school was subsequently named in honor of the deceased. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatal Accident Reporting System, the Alton crash was the sole school bus accident in the United States in the period 1979–1989 in which passengers died due to submersion-related causes. [1]
Three students of the Tuscarawas Valley High School died in the bus crash on Tuesday, the school district superintendent has confirmed. The teenagers – Katelyn Owens, 15, Jeffery Worrell, 18 ...