Seven people died at the scene on U.S. Highway eighty three
concerning forty six miles north of metropolis and another died later at a
metropolis hospital, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper writer Hein
aforementioned.
The trooper said it had been descending weekday morning
however it was unsure if that was an element within the crash that occurred
simply before 11:30 a.m. He said no different vehicles were in the space at the
time.
The company is predicated in city, in Hidalgo County in
Texas' Rio Grande vale. A message left at the bus company Saturday wasn't right
away came.
Hein said twenty three folks were taken to Doctors Hospital
in metropolis, where the eighth victim died. Seven were taken to a Dimmit
County hospital in Carrizo Springs.
Priscilla Salinas, a spokeswoman for metropolis Medical
Center, said bus passengers being treated there were in stable condition. She
said she might share no extra info.
The highway at the accident scene was reopened by early evening.
Laredo concerning a hundred and fifty miles southwest of San Antonio.
The crash is one of the deadliest bus accidents in Texas
within the last many years. In January 2015, two state corrections officers and
eight inmates were killed when their American state Department of Criminal
Justice bus smitten a piece of displaced road railing west of Odessa. The bus
fell about twenty feet before placing a Union Pacific freight train that
happened to be passing to a lower place the road. Last Thursday, the NTSB
concluded that the wreck was caused by the bus touch the railing piece.
Seventeen passengers died in 2008 near Sherman once their
bus plunged over a road bridge on their approach to a non secular retreat in
Missouri.
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