More than 20 Mississippi students hospitalized in bus crash
MCCARLEY, MISS. -- A bus fell onto its side on a busy Mississippi highway Monday, causing more than 20 high school students to be hospitalized.
One student was airlifted to a hospital with severe injuries, Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ronnie Shive told The Greenwood Commonwealth . Shive said 20 others who were hospitalized had bruises and abrasions.
The bus was carrying 40 students and three football coaches back to Greenwood from a football camp in Starkville, Greenwood school district spokeswoman Margaret Dean said, adding that head football coach Clinton Gatewood was driving.
An initial investigation shows Gatewood lost control of the bus and that it ran off the right edge of the pavement, Shive said. Gatewood overcorrected and crossed over the left edge of the road, Shive said, with the bus then flipping onto its side as Gatewood tried to swerve back to the right.
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(Gulfport Sun Herald)
This photograph provided by Ken Strachan, director of the Carroll County Emergency Management/Civil Defense Agency, shows a Greenwood School District school bus on its side on U.S. 82 near McCarley Road in Carroll County, Mississippi, Monday, June 17, 2019. Several Greenwood High School students were injured in the one-vehicle accident and were taken to area hospitals. CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY KEN STRACHAN/THE CARROLL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
