2 DEAD, AS MANY AS 50 INJURED IN MISSOURI SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT
Baku, August 5 (AZERTAC). Two people were killed and as many as 50 injured Thursday in a wreck involving two school buses, a tractor trailer and an SUV about 40 miles outside of St. Louis, Missouri, authorities said.
Jorma Duran, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said the wreck happened between 10:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at mile marker 250 of I-44.
CNN affiliate KMOV reported the buses were carrying 8th grade band students from the St. James (Missouri) school district who were on their way to a Six Flags amusement park.
Thirty-six of the children aboard the buses were being transported to the SSM Cardinal Glennon Children`s Medical Center in St. Louis, a spokeswoman for that facility said.
Four others were taken to St. John`s Mercy Medical Hospital in Washington, Missouri, and five were transported to St. John`s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, a spokesman for both hospitals said.
Duran said the crash closed about four miles of the eastbound side of the interstate.
Video from the scene showed a school bus resting atop the back end of a tractor trailer and another school bus nearby.
The Franklin County Sheriff`s Office told CNN that it was helping the Missouri State Highway Patrol respond to the wreck.
The wreck reportedly happened on I-44 in Gray Summit, which is about 40 miles southwest of St. Louis.
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