Texas Bus Crash Kills 13

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. (More buses stories.)