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Breaking news from the Orlando Sentinal
Dozens injured in bus crash
By Gary Taylor and Robert Perez | Sentinel Staff Writers
Posted April 4, 2003, 11:58 AM EST
SANFORD -- State troopers say two charter bus drivers will be cited for careless driving for causing a three-bus accident Friday morning on Interstate 4 that injured 59 people, most of them members of a Maryland high school orchestra.
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Kim Miller did not have the names of the drivers, but she said they were following each other too closely in stop-and-go rush-hour traffic.
Ninety-four students, 21 chaperones and three drivers were onboard.
At least 30 people were sent to area hospitals. Four were reported to be seriously injured, said Alan Harris, a spokesman with Seminole County Department of Public Safety.
The orchestra, from Edgewood High School in Edgewood, Md., near Baltimore, was en route to Walt Disney World's Epcot Center for a weekend music competition when the accident happened at 6:52 a.m. just south of the St. Johns River bridge.
The first bus slammed on its brakes to avoid a vehicle in front of it, according to Ed Royston, president of the charter bus company involved, Hunt Valley Motorcoach.(cq) The two bus drivers behind were unable to stop in time, and each rear-ended the bus in front, he said.
The crashed closed the westbound lanes of I-4 for about three hours, leaving some motorists stuck on the road, unable to exit. The backup was eight miles long.
Miller described the scene of the crash as chaotic. Most of the victims were composed, she said, but both doors on the second bus were jammed shut by the crash, so students had to be lifted out through windows, some on backboards.
At least 30 victims were taken to area hospitals. Most - nearly two dozen - went to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford. By late morning, though, most of those had been released. The condition of the more seriously injured passengers was not known.
Those who were unhurt or were merely shaken up were taken by Seminole County school buses to Sanford Middle School, where they were held in the school's gymnasium, waiting for a new set of buses to take them to their hotels.
Alicia Caldwell and Rene Stutzman contributed to this report.
Thank goodness no one was seriously injured! Weird to see people from my area on the news in Florida!
Dozens injured in bus crash
By Gary Taylor and Robert Perez | Sentinel Staff Writers
Posted April 4, 2003, 11:58 AM EST
SANFORD -- State troopers say two charter bus drivers will be cited for careless driving for causing a three-bus accident Friday morning on Interstate 4 that injured 59 people, most of them members of a Maryland high school orchestra.
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Kim Miller did not have the names of the drivers, but she said they were following each other too closely in stop-and-go rush-hour traffic.
Ninety-four students, 21 chaperones and three drivers were onboard.
At least 30 people were sent to area hospitals. Four were reported to be seriously injured, said Alan Harris, a spokesman with Seminole County Department of Public Safety.
The orchestra, from Edgewood High School in Edgewood, Md., near Baltimore, was en route to Walt Disney World's Epcot Center for a weekend music competition when the accident happened at 6:52 a.m. just south of the St. Johns River bridge.
The first bus slammed on its brakes to avoid a vehicle in front of it, according to Ed Royston, president of the charter bus company involved, Hunt Valley Motorcoach.(cq) The two bus drivers behind were unable to stop in time, and each rear-ended the bus in front, he said.
The crashed closed the westbound lanes of I-4 for about three hours, leaving some motorists stuck on the road, unable to exit. The backup was eight miles long.
Miller described the scene of the crash as chaotic. Most of the victims were composed, she said, but both doors on the second bus were jammed shut by the crash, so students had to be lifted out through windows, some on backboards.
At least 30 victims were taken to area hospitals. Most - nearly two dozen - went to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford. By late morning, though, most of those had been released. The condition of the more seriously injured passengers was not known.
Those who were unhurt or were merely shaken up were taken by Seminole County school buses to Sanford Middle School, where they were held in the school's gymnasium, waiting for a new set of buses to take them to their hotels.
Alicia Caldwell and Rene Stutzman contributed to this report.
Thank goodness no one was seriously injured! Weird to see people from my area on the news in Florida!
