BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi.said the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals, while nine other students were taken by ambulance, after the crash Friday.
Troopers said the driver, 55-year-old Tina Wilson of Roebuck, South Carolina, was traveling west on Interstate 10 near Bay St. Louis when a tire blew and the bus hit a center concrete barrier. Bay St. Louis Police Chief Toby Schwartz said the bus careened away from the collision on two wheels before Wilson wrestled it back down onto all four wheels. Schwartz told thethat Wilson “took every piece of strength in her body to hold that steering wheel long enough to get it back down on the road.
The uninjured students were taken by school bus to another location and later were taken to New Orleans. The interstate was blocked for hours.Troopers are investigating the crash by the bus owned by Dixon Motor Xpress of Chester, South Carolina. Owner Todd Dixon toldon Saturday that the crash was a “freak thing” and that his company has had no other accidents since it was created in 2019.
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Charter bus crash in Mississippi injures 11, including University of South Carolina studentsAt least 11 people, including 10 University of South Carolina students and a bus driver, were injured when a charter bus crashed in southern Mississippi. The bus was carrying 56 students when it crashed around 3 p.m. on Interstate 10 in Hancock County. The driver lost control of the bus after one of its tires blew out.
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