2 students dead, 2 others and bus driver injured as school bus plummets from 610 Loop in Houston, Two acceptance died and two others were aching forth with their bus disciplinarian Tuesday morning if a blast acquired their academy bus to attempt from Loop 610 in southeast Houston, admiral said.
The bones occurred about 7 a.m. on the eastbound frontage alley of the South Loop abreast Telephone Road, Houston badge said. It appears to be the aboriginal afterlife of a apprentice in a accessible academy bus blow in Texas back 2008, according to accompaniment data.
The two dead accept not been identified. One was a 17-year-old babe who abounding Furr High School. She died at the scene. The added was a 14-year-old babe who abounding REACH, a allotment academy for dropout accretion amid on the Furr campus. She died at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. The bus was en avenue to the campus, academy admiral said.
Of the added two injured, both boys who appear REACH, one was taken to Children's Memorial Hermann and the added to Texas Children's Hospital. The bus driver, afterwards articular as Luisa Pacheco, was taken to Ben Taub Hospital. She had non-life-threatening injuries, admiral said.
The bus was able with bench belts, HISD said.
As badge abide their investigation, Houston Badge Department agent Victor Senties said the disciplinarian of a Buick LaSabre told lath she anticipation addition car abreast her was afloat into her lane. She veered abroad and hit the ancillary of the bus. The bus disciplinarian allegedly over-corrected and the bus careened from the overpass, Senties added.
The disciplinarian of the LaSabre was detained, but has not been charged, HPD said .
At a account appointment afterwards Tuesday, HISD arch of agents Jason Spencer said the disciplinarian of the LeSabre is a abecedary in the district.
School, city-limits and accompaniment admiral beatific letters afterwards the baleful collision, calling for prayer.
"We are acutely afflicted by this tragedy," said HISD Superintendent Terry Grier, who is vacationing this anniversary and who appear endure anniversary that he will abandon in March. "I ask all of the HISD association to accompany me in praying for all of those involved."
On Tuesday afternoon, Houston Mayor Annise Parker took to Twitter, calling the students' deaths "an incomprehensible loss."
"We action prayers for the victims of the abhorrent academy bus blow this morning," she said, in the tweet.
Gov. Greg Abbott, too, appear a account apropos the crash.
"The Accompaniment of Texas mourns the blow of Texas acceptance today in a tragedy no ancestor should anytime accept to experience," he said. "Cecilia and I forward our thoughts and prayers to the families afflicted by this affecting incident, and I ask all Texans to abutment and accumulate Houston ISD and its association in their thoughts and prayers as they alleviate from this loss."
On Tuesday afternoon, the National Traffic and Assurance Lath said they were investigating the crash.
Gordon Trowbridge, Communications Director for the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration, said about four humans die in bus crashes like the one that occurred in Houston.
"It's a almost attenuate event," he said.
The bus, HISD backer Holly Huffman said, was headed to Furr High at 520 Mercury Drive. Attorneys were beatific there to abutment acceptance and staff.
Guardrails forth the bypass were damaged if the bus plunged from the freeway and concluded up beneath the bridge. The bones affected admiral to block the freeway while crews austere the scene. It was not accepted if the lanes would reopen.
Spencer aswell said that it has been at atomic 15 years back an HISD apprentice on lath a academy bus was dead in a wreck.
Districts beyond the accompaniment appear no apprentice deaths from bus wrecks from 2008-09 to 2013-14, according to abstracts from the Texas Education Agency. Statewide, there were 13,343 bus wrecks, with 70 austere injuries and 2,659 accessory injuries during that time. More contempo abstracts was not available.
HISD appear 354 accidents, with 59 accessory injuries and one austere abrasion during those six years, the accompaniment abstracts show.
Pacheco was from the district's axial motor pool, said Wretha Thomas, arch of the district's bus drivers' union.
"This is the affliction I've anytime apparent in my 30 years as abutment president," she said, abacus that abounding of the union's drivers were in mourning. She said she was allurement HISD to forward attorneys to allocution to commune drivers afore they arch out on their afternoon route.
"We ask our drivers to pray, afore they go out on their routes in morning and evening, for safety," said Thomas.
HISD Transportation General Manager Nathan Graf said afterwards Tuesday that Pacheco was abreast the end of the avenue if the blow occurred.
At Furr, apprenticeship connected as usual, as did a appointed student-run aliment drive. In the backward morning, some parents came by to aces up food. Chris White aswell came to analysis on his children.
"I woke up to it (news of the crash) and I came up actuality to analysis on them. They're OK," White said. "They alleged me but I absent the call. I already saw it on TV. It's absolutely scary. It could be anyone's child. My affection goes out to those families."
Adalid Garcia was aswell at the academy for the aliment drive. She has a son in 10th grade.
"It's absolutely sad," Garcia said. "That could accept been my boy. He alleged to acquaint me what happened."
The bones occurred about 7 a.m. on the eastbound frontage alley of the South Loop abreast Telephone Road, Houston badge said. It appears to be the aboriginal afterlife of a apprentice in a accessible academy bus blow in Texas back 2008, according to accompaniment data.
Of the added two injured, both boys who appear REACH, one was taken to Children's Memorial Hermann and the added to Texas Children's Hospital. The bus driver, afterwards articular as Luisa Pacheco, was taken to Ben Taub Hospital. She had non-life-threatening injuries, admiral said.
The bus was able with bench belts, HISD said.
As badge abide their investigation, Houston Badge Department agent Victor Senties said the disciplinarian of a Buick LaSabre told lath she anticipation addition car abreast her was afloat into her lane. She veered abroad and hit the ancillary of the bus. The bus disciplinarian allegedly over-corrected and the bus careened from the overpass, Senties added.
The disciplinarian of the LaSabre was detained, but has not been charged, HPD said .
At a account appointment afterwards Tuesday, HISD arch of agents Jason Spencer said the disciplinarian of the LeSabre is a abecedary in the district.
School, city-limits and accompaniment admiral beatific letters afterwards the baleful collision, calling for prayer.
"We are acutely afflicted by this tragedy," said HISD Superintendent Terry Grier, who is vacationing this anniversary and who appear endure anniversary that he will abandon in March. "I ask all of the HISD association to accompany me in praying for all of those involved."
On Tuesday afternoon, Houston Mayor Annise Parker took to Twitter, calling the students' deaths "an incomprehensible loss."
"We action prayers for the victims of the abhorrent academy bus blow this morning," she said, in the tweet.
Gov. Greg Abbott, too, appear a account apropos the crash.
"The Accompaniment of Texas mourns the blow of Texas acceptance today in a tragedy no ancestor should anytime accept to experience," he said. "Cecilia and I forward our thoughts and prayers to the families afflicted by this affecting incident, and I ask all Texans to abutment and accumulate Houston ISD and its association in their thoughts and prayers as they alleviate from this loss."
On Tuesday afternoon, the National Traffic and Assurance Lath said they were investigating the crash.
Gordon Trowbridge, Communications Director for the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration, said about four humans die in bus crashes like the one that occurred in Houston.
"It's a almost attenuate event," he said.
The bus, HISD backer Holly Huffman said, was headed to Furr High at 520 Mercury Drive. Attorneys were beatific there to abutment acceptance and staff.
Guardrails forth the bypass were damaged if the bus plunged from the freeway and concluded up beneath the bridge. The bones affected admiral to block the freeway while crews austere the scene. It was not accepted if the lanes would reopen.
Spencer aswell said that it has been at atomic 15 years back an HISD apprentice on lath a academy bus was dead in a wreck.
Districts beyond the accompaniment appear no apprentice deaths from bus wrecks from 2008-09 to 2013-14, according to abstracts from the Texas Education Agency. Statewide, there were 13,343 bus wrecks, with 70 austere injuries and 2,659 accessory injuries during that time. More contempo abstracts was not available.
HISD appear 354 accidents, with 59 accessory injuries and one austere abrasion during those six years, the accompaniment abstracts show.
Pacheco was from the district's axial motor pool, said Wretha Thomas, arch of the district's bus drivers' union.
"This is the affliction I've anytime apparent in my 30 years as abutment president," she said, abacus that abounding of the union's drivers were in mourning. She said she was allurement HISD to forward attorneys to allocution to commune drivers afore they arch out on their afternoon route.
"We ask our drivers to pray, afore they go out on their routes in morning and evening, for safety," said Thomas.
HISD Transportation General Manager Nathan Graf said afterwards Tuesday that Pacheco was abreast the end of the avenue if the blow occurred.
At Furr, apprenticeship connected as usual, as did a appointed student-run aliment drive. In the backward morning, some parents came by to aces up food. Chris White aswell came to analysis on his children.
"I woke up to it (news of the crash) and I came up actuality to analysis on them. They're OK," White said. "They alleged me but I absent the call. I already saw it on TV. It's absolutely scary. It could be anyone's child. My affection goes out to those families."
Adalid Garcia was aswell at the academy for the aliment drive. She has a son in 10th grade.
"It's absolutely sad," Garcia said. "That could accept been my boy. He alleged to acquaint me what happened."
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