Louis Post-Dispatch he helped a pregnant woman get off the bus and was searching for his phone when he “realized smoke was coming in the bus. Passenger Edward Alexander of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, told the St. A second tractor-trailer appears to have made contact with the right rear of the bus while a third tractor-trailer appears to have crashed into the rear of that second semi. Photos and video from the scene showed the side of the bus peeled open and its roof crumpled.
Mike Bost, an Illinois Republican, said an NTSB official told him the bus was equipped with monitoring cameras “so they’ll be able to do a full check to see how the accident occurred.” The crash closed westbound traffic on I-70.Ī team from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene Wednesday. State Police spokesperson Melaney Arnold said those killed and injured were all on the bus.Īmalgamated Transit Union, which represents Greyhound drivers, said in a Facebook post that the driver was in serious condition at a hospital. No one in the three trucks was hurt in the crash near the city of Highland, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of St. Police did not immediately release details about those who were injured and killed. Louis-bound bus was traveling westbound along Interstate 70 in Madison County when it crashed into the three semis just before 2 a.m., Illinois State Police said, citing an initial investigation.įour people were taken to the hospital by helicopter and at least 10 others were taken by ambulance, state police said in a news release. A Greyhound passenger bus crashed into three tractor-trailers parked along a highway rest area exit early Wednesday in southern Illinois, killing three people and injuring 14 others, some seriously, state police said.
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