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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,191 posts) Wed Jan 14, 2015, 01:17 PM Jan 2015

Bus carrying prisoners involved in West Texas fatal wreck

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bus-carrying-prisoners-invol

PENWELL, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a bus carrying 12 prisoners and three corrections officers fell from an overpass in West Texas and crashed onto train tracks below, killing an unspecified number of people.

Department of Public Safety trooper Shawn Baxter, who is en route to the scene west of Odessa near Penwell, could not confirm details Wednesday morning but said it was a fatal accident.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the DPS reported that a train may have collided with the bus or been struck by it after the bus fell from the overpass.

A spokeswoman says Medical Center Hospital in Odessa is treating five patients had no more information.

Read more: AP/Yahoo News

Life imitates art. Reminds me of the crash from The Fugitive.

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Bus carrying prisoners involved in West Texas fatal wreck (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2015 OP

From the local newspaper: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2015 #1

Not a lot of new info yet TexasProgresive Jan 2015 #2

mahatmakanejeeves

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1. From the local newspaper:

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 01:36 PM

Jan 2015

FATAL CRASH Update: Ten people dead in prison bus wreck

Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:44 am
by Odessa American staff
oanews@oaoa.com
@OdessaAmerican
Facebook: Odessa American
call 432-333-7714 for the main newsroom line.

Update: 11:20 a.m. DPS Trooper Oscar Villarreal confirms 10 are dead. Fire department tells OA reporter Corey Paul that five were taken to the hospital in critical condition.

A trooper was working a separate wreck ahead of the bus when the bus veered into the median for an unknown reason, perhaps ice, Villarreal said.

It crashed down an embankment between two overpasses and {hit} a passing train. It did not crash off an overpass as previously thought.

"It's as bad as you can imagine. In 32 years it's as bad as anything I've seen," Battalion Chief Kavin Tinney said at the scene.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

2. Not a lot of new info yet

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 01:36 PM

Jan 2015

here's a link to the local CBS station
http://cbs7.com/news/

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