A chain collision involving about a half-dozen buses east of Atlanta trapped one driver and forced medical officials to examine more than 50 children for injuries. The accident happened Saturday while the buses were taking students from Burke County near the South Carolina border to a Six Flags amusement park near Atlanta. Burke County School Board Chairman Johnny Jenkins said one bus slowed abruptly on Interstate 20 as it approached a construction site, setting off a chain collision. School officials said six buses collided, though police said seven buses were involved. Rescuers cut one driver, Angela Benjamin Jones, from the wreckage. She was flown to anAtlantahospital and listed in stable condition. More than 50 children were treated or more
4 students were transported to a Bay Minette hospital this morning after an SUV rear-ended a school bus on Ala. 59 at the entrance to Chandler’s Mobile Home Park near Stapleton, according to a news release by Baldwin County Public Schools spokesman Terry Wilhite. The 7:30 a.m. crash resulted in minor injuries for 3 Baldwin County High School girls — 2 ninth-graders and an 11th-grader — and an 8th-grade girl from Bay Minette Middle. The students were treated and released – 1 had a severe asthma attack and the others had scrapes and bruises, according to the release. Wilhite said there was no word on the condition of the driver of the SUV. Alabama State Troopers investigated. “We’re very grateful for the fast response of troopers and emergency medical personnel,” Wilhite said. “It could have been a lot worse. We have 4more
Three women were arrested Wednesday afternoon after leading police on a 3-mile chase and then colliding with an off-duty Alameda County Sheriff’s employee in front of a substation, a spokesman said. Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said about 30 officers and employees poured out of the police substation at 150th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard after the car collided with non-sworn sheriff’s employee who was leaving work at 5:05 p.m. It all started before 5 p.m. when the three women assaulted and stole the purse of an elderly woman in the parking lot of a Safeway store at 20629 Redwood Road in Castro Valley, Nelson said. The woman gave police a description of the car and deputies spotted it not far from the store. Deputies attempted to stop the car but the suspects kept driving and fled to 164th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, where police more
A bus carrying Justin Moore’s band and crew was involved in a fatal traffic accident early Saturday morning (May 12) near Mattoon, Ill. Moore was not on the bus at the time of the crash. A car driven by Joseph Taylor, 48, of Chicago hit the back of the tour bus at around 6 a.m. After Taylor stepped out of the car to look at the damage, he was struck by another vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier newspaper in Mattoon. Moore wrote a Twitter message about the accident: “Thankful my band and crew guys are all good. They got hit by a car this morning in their bus. Prayers go out to the guy who lost his life and his family. You never know man. You have to be prepared to meet God today, ’cause it may be your more
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