School Bus Hit By Train
(N.Z. Press Association — Copyright)
FACKLER (Alabama), Jan. 18.
A goods train crashed into a school bus at a crossing today, sliced it in half, killed four children and critically injured eight other children and the bus driver.
Part of the wreckage was dragged almost a mile. “The brakes gave out,” said the school bus driver (Mr C. Beavers).
Two of Mr Beavers’s nephews were among the dead. A nephew and a niece of the driver were seriously hurt. The bus normally carries about 45 pupils. The train smashed into the bus at a crossing near Fackler, a north-east Alabama town of about 200.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 7
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