How many people died in the accident involving a bus from first baptist church in louisiana?
A bus carrying a church youth group from Louisiana to Georgia flipped Sunday on Interstate 20 in Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 23 others, a coroner said. The bus, from First Baptist Church in Shreveport, La., rolled three times around 10:20 a.m. near Meridian and trapped at least two people underneath, Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler III said. Teenagers and adults were on board. “It had a blowout,” Cobler said. A group of National Guard soldiers was on the highway at the time and helped extricate the injured. “The National Guardsmen actually picked the bus up off the two people and got them out,” Cobler said. One person died at the scene, Cobler said. Three were airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, including one with severe head injuries, while the others were being treated at three hospitals in Meridian. Cobler said injuries ranged from severe pelvic, back, and chest injuries to scrapes and scratches. An official at Regency Hosp
(CNN) — The driver of a church bus carrying senior citizens fell asleep at the wheel Monday and rear-ended a tractor-trailer parked off the shoulder of Interstate 20 in northeastern Louisiana, killing eight of the 15 passengers aboard the bus, police said. “According to the driver’s statement, he apparently fell asleep at the wheel,” said Trooper Julie Lewis, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana State Police. The accident occurred two miles west of Tallulah shortly after 11 a.m. (noon EDT), when the eastbound bus from the First Baptist Church of Eldorado, Texas, left the road and struck the rear of the 18-wheeler, which had broken down earlier and was awaiting help, said Lt. William Davis, a public information officer with the state police in Baton Rouge. The church bus was taking senior citizens on a tour of historical sites. Pictures showed a gaping hole torn into the right-front section of the bus, its sheet metal exterior ripped apart. The injured include the driver of the bus. The dri
