Carrollton bus collision
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The Carrollton bus collision occurred on May 14, 1988, on Interstate 71 in unincorporated Carroll County, Kentucky, United States. The collision involved a former school bus in use by a church youth g
1972 advertisement for the Superior Coach Company, showing a similar bus to the one involved in the crash
Diagram of the crash scene from the NTSB report
A school bus operated by St. Xavier High School in Louisville in 2016. The bus is equipped with emergency exit windows and a left-side exit door, as required by Kentucky law.
The Prestonsburg, Kentucky, bus crash occurred on February 28, 1958, on U.S. Route 23 in Floyd County, Kentucky, when a school bus carrying 48 elementary and high school students struck the rear of a
Carrollton bus collision
…bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus (counting the driver), there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29), and the 1963 Chualar bus crash (32), according to the National Safety Council. Additionally, but not…
Recovery of the school bus from the Levisa Fork
A memorial to the disaster sits in front of the old Floyd County Courthouse in Prestonsburg.