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
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.
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The Levisa Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, approximately 164 miles long, in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky in the United States.
Prestonsburg, Kentucky, bus crash
…carrying 48 elementary and high school students struck the rear of a wrecker truck, causing the bus to plunge into the icy waters of the rain-swollen Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River. Of the 49 people on board (including the driver), 26 students and the bus driver were killed in the crash. It is the sixth-deadliest…
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