Posted on 01/25/2006 2:18:37 PM PST by OnRightOnLeftCoast
Just on!!
School bus collides with tractor-trailer.
Seven dead....5 are kids.
Lake Butler, Florida
Prayers offered.
On ABC news at the top of the hour.
Prayers for all including the children and their families.
FHP Officer Ron Cooper said an unspecified number of students were among those killed and several students have been taken to Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
The bus was operated by the Union County school district, which has three schools from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, district official Anita Andrews said. She had no other information.
The accident occurred about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, about four miles south of Lake Butler. Lake Butler is about 56 miles southwest of Jacksonville.
Just on but 2-1/2 hrs ago. Fox must be busy covering Scott and Lacey still.
That's one county north of here and I work in a major hospital with a top level trauma department. I'm just a transcriber (and not for pediatrics), but it's going to be a busy night here.
Admin/sidebar moderator moved from "Breaking", probably because original post did not have link.
Prayers and sadness.
Where I work.
Oh no. Prayers for all.
Prayers going out from Duval county.Local TV says a semi tractor trailer rear ended a van which was stopped for a school bus which was letting kids out.
Currently local news is saying all the dead were in the stopped van and no students, but this is still a breaking atory as of 5:30 local EST.
Teaching hospital. Had a sibling work there, got friend there now. Poor kids.
OMG! How sad.
HOW awful!
If this isn't Breaking News I don't know what is.
Prayers are being offered for the families of the children, and the drivers of the bus and the truck. Dear God, I don't know what else to say. This is too tragic to express my feelings.
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