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Bus Crash in West Texas Proves Fatal

Posted on Nov 08, 2011

Last Friday, a bus carrying 12 Abilene Christian University students, three faculty members, and the spouse of a faculty member, crashed on U.S. Highway 83 near Ballinger.

Pictures of the Texas bus wreck showed a badly mangled bus that was almost unrecognizable. With the roof and sides torn off, all that was left were rows of seats.

The students and faculty were on their way to Medina to do mission work for the Medina Children's Home when the driver, who was also a faculty member, lost control of the bus coming around a bend. After hitting a concrete culvert, the bus rolled. Several of the passengers were ejected from the bus.

Fifteen of the passengers were injured in the bus crash, and at least four of the passengers were critically injured. One student, sophomore Anabel Reid, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The bus was owned by Abilene Christian University, but Texas Department of Safety officials could not say whether the bus had a defect or whether proper maintenance had been conducted on the bus. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

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