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Texas Bus Crash Kills 13

Charter was bound for religious event

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 8, 2008 12:07 PM CDT
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(AP) – A bus carrying members of a Vietnamese church group to a religious festival crashed onto its side and then skidded off a freeway 64 miles north of Dallas today, killing at least 13 people. Authorities said 24 others were hospitalized. The bus carrying 55 people from Houston to Missouri may have blown a tire, but officials were still investigating, the AP reports.

The bus smashed into a guard rail at about 12:45 am on a bridge that sits about 15 feet above a creek, apparently skidding along the guard rail before sliding off US 75 on the other side of the bridge. Police say 12 people died at the scene and another died at a Dallas hospital. At least five more were hospitalized in critical condition.

Emergency officials are seen in the foreground as a hearse departs a bus accident site where 12 people died in a crash early this morning in Sherman, Texas.
Emergency officials are seen in the foreground as a hearse departs a bus accident site where 12 people died in a crash early this morning in Sherman, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A Texas state trooper makes photographs at a bus accident scene on U.S. 75 North bound that killed at least 12 people early, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, in Sherman, Texas.
A Texas state trooper makes photographs at a bus accident scene on U.S. 75 North bound that killed at least 12 people early, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, in Sherman, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A Texas State Trooper stands in front of a bus lying on its side after crashing on US 75 northbound this morning in Sherman, Texas.
A Texas State Trooper stands in front of a bus lying on its side after crashing on US 75 northbound this morning in Sherman, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Sherman emergency officials look in through the front windshield at the drivers seat of a bus that crashed on US 75 northbound killing at least 12 people early today in Sherman, Texas.
Sherman emergency officials look in through the front windshield at the drivers seat of a bus that crashed on US 75 northbound killing at least 12 people early today in Sherman, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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