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Fri Apr 12, 2013, 06:02 AM Apr 2013

2 killed, 41 injured as bus bound for casino crashes

IRVING -- Dan Risik was sitting comfortably in an aisle seat of a chartered bus Thursday morning, chatting with a friend and looking forward to a day at an Oklahoma casino.

Seconds later, after the bus veered across a busy Irving freeway and crashed, he was lying on his side, trapped under a woman in a blood-soaked tangle of people screaming for help.

"I couldn't move because there was a lady on top of me and she couldn't move," said Risik, 73, of Fort Worth. "She was really buckled in there real bad, and my foot was caught under her.

"People were hollering and screaming and there was blood all over the place."

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/04/11/4769446/2-killed-41-injured-as-bus-bound.html#storylink=cpy

The Dallas Morning News reports that Thursday’s crash was the second fatality accident involving the 65-year-old driver of the bus, Loyd Rieve of Dallas, who was seriously injured in the crash.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/irving/headlines/20130411-driver-in-charter-bus-wreck-in-irving-also-involved-in-fatal-accident-in-1998.ece

[font color=green]The accident occurred at State Highway 161 and Belt Line in Irving. The bus was operated by Cardinal Coach Lines which has a good safety record. In response to the accident, blood donors are being sought by Carter BloodCare in the DFW area. They indicate a need for 200 O negative donors per day for the next two weeks.[/font]

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