Houston School Bus Crash, Houston Academy Bus Crash, Two acceptance died and two others were aching forth with their bus disciplinarian Tuesday morning if a academy bus plunged from Loop 610 in southeast Houston.
The bones occurred about 7 a.m. on the eastbound frontage alley of the South Loop abreast Telephone Road, according to the Houston Police Department. It appears to be the aboriginal baleful accessible academy bus blow in Texas back 2008, according to accompaniment data.
Witnesses say two girls and two boys were on the bus, forth with the driver. One babe died while the afflicted acceptance and bus disciplinarian were rushed to breadth hospitals, said Holly Huffman, a backer for the Houston Independent Academy District. The commune accepted a additional changeable apprentice died afterwards getting taken to a hospital.
Two acceptance had been transported to Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. A third had been taken to Texas Children's Hospital. The disciplinarian was taken to Ben Taub Hospital.
"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."
The bus, Huffman said, was headed to Furr High Academy at 520 Mercury Drive. Admiral said four acceptance were on the bus at the time of the crash. Counselors are accessible at the academy to abutment acceptance and staff.
Police are still aggravating to attach down abstracts about the wreck, said Victor Senties, an HPD agent However, Senties said, the disciplinarian of a Buick LaSabre told board 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.
Guardrails forth the bypass were damaged if the bus plunged from the freeway and concluded up beneath the bridge.
Senties said he did not apperceive if the acceptance were cutting assurance belts. Most academy buses are not able with the belts.
The disciplinarian of the LaSabre has been detained, but not charged, Senties said.
The bones afflicted admiral to block the freeway while crews austere the scene. It was not accepted if the lanes would reopen.
HISD arch of agents Jason Spencer said he could not anamnesis addition baleful bus blow in the endure 5 or so years.
Districts beyond the accompaniment appear no 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.
Gov. Greg Abbott appear a account apropos the crash.
"The Accompaniment of Texas mourns the accident of Texas acceptance today in a tragedy no ancestor should anytime accept to experience," he said, in the statement. "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."
Houston Chronicle reporters Dylan Baddour, Carol Christian, Craig Hlavaty and St. John Barned-Smith contributed to this report.
The bones occurred about 7 a.m. on the eastbound frontage alley of the South Loop abreast Telephone Road, according to the Houston Police Department. It appears to be the aboriginal baleful accessible academy bus blow in Texas back 2008, according to accompaniment data.
Witnesses say two girls and two boys were on the bus, forth with the driver. One babe died while the afflicted acceptance and bus disciplinarian were rushed to breadth hospitals, said Holly Huffman, a backer for the Houston Independent Academy District. The commune accepted a additional changeable apprentice died afterwards getting taken to a hospital.
Two acceptance had been transported to Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. A third had been taken to Texas Children's Hospital. The disciplinarian was taken to Ben Taub Hospital.
"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."
The bus, Huffman said, was headed to Furr High Academy at 520 Mercury Drive. Admiral said four acceptance were on the bus at the time of the crash. Counselors are accessible at the academy to abutment acceptance and staff.
Police are still aggravating to attach down abstracts about the wreck, said Victor Senties, an HPD agent However, Senties said, the disciplinarian of a Buick LaSabre told board 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.
Guardrails forth the bypass were damaged if the bus plunged from the freeway and concluded up beneath the bridge.
Senties said he did not apperceive if the acceptance were cutting assurance belts. Most academy buses are not able with the belts.
The disciplinarian of the LaSabre has been detained, but not charged, Senties said.
The bones afflicted admiral to block the freeway while crews austere the scene. It was not accepted if the lanes would reopen.
HISD arch of agents Jason Spencer said he could not anamnesis addition baleful bus blow in the endure 5 or so years.
Districts beyond the accompaniment appear no 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.
Gov. Greg Abbott appear a account apropos the crash.
"The Accompaniment of Texas mourns the accident of Texas acceptance today in a tragedy no ancestor should anytime accept to experience," he said, in the statement. "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."
Houston Chronicle reporters Dylan Baddour, Carol Christian, Craig Hlavaty and St. John Barned-Smith contributed to this report.
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