Posted on 09/24/2008 4:44:35 PM PDT by driftdiver
CITRA, Fla. -- A 13-year-old student was killed and eight others injured when a school bus crashed and caught fire, trapping the injured children in their seats.
Officials said the bus carrying 21 students from North Marion Middle School and North Marion High School was struck by a big rig Tuesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 301 at 155th Street near Citra.
As flames began to overwhelm the bus, four motorists stopped and began pulling the trapped students out of the flames.
"They were heroes," Marion County School Superindent Jim Yancey said at the crash scene. "(The motorists) started pulling people out of the bus, there were four of them, and they kept trying to go back and get more and more kids and they said finally it just got too hot and they couldn't pull anymore of kids out. They know there was a kid trapped in the back and they just couldn't get him or her out -- I don't know which it was. They just couldn't get him out and they were showing more grief and remorse for not being able to do more. There were four gentlemen who just jumped into the inferno."
Local 6 reported that Frances Shee, 13, burned to death inside the bus.
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"It is just a really sad day for Marion County schools," Yancy said. "Those 18 kids who got out of there alive are very fortunate to get out of there alive. This is a tragedy but it is also a miracle for those kids who got out of there."
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The bus was apparently sitting at a stop sign with its flashers engaged before the collision.
The big rig hit the bus and pushed it hundreds of feet before both vehicles caught fire, investigators said.
(Excerpt) Read more at local6.com ...
Rest In Peace, Frances Shee, and our prayers go out to your family and to the brave rescuers who saved the rest.
Such a tragedy for this girl and her family. Thankfully so many more were saved. Thank God for people like this.
Heroes ping!
Prayers for the innocent going up! Too much tragedy and sorrow in this world.
Prayers up.
From the link:
“.....we are lucky one person got out of their alive,”
Are there no more editors and proof readers in the media?
RIP Frances!! You’ll be missed
Are there no more editors and proof readers in the media?
There is nothing wrong with that statement, they were referring to the luck of it, not the literal sense.
RIP Frances!! You’ll be missed
Sure there’s something wrong with the statement. The writer used “their”, when it should have been “there.”
Should have read “we are lucky one person got out of there alive.”
>>“.....we are lucky one person got out of their alive,”<<
The poster was refering to the word “their”
The sentance should read
We are lucky one person got out of ‘there’ alive.
See?
And nitpicking that on a heart breaker story like this is even more annoying than using the incorrect form of there.
>>And nitpicking that on a heart breaker story like this is even more annoying than using the incorrect form of there.<<
Hey! Don’t shoot the messager on this. Address the OP. Thanks.
I thought only liberals were that nitpicky.
“.....we are lucky one person got out of their alive,”
How do YOU spell THERE? I sure don't spell it that way.
I am lead to believe that some people just loose there These-R-Us guides and wing it.
I refuse to nitpick.
Holy crap!!!!!
Ya got me! Good catch! (yes I am a homeschooling mother)
I wasn’t the one who pointed the original mistake out in the story though. Just the difference that the OP was pointing out.
I think I need to let people defend themselves. And use that spellcheck!
:)
Spellcheck would have never caught the original gaffe, btw. They’re, there, their, all properly spelled. Spellcheck only helps if you know how to spell already.
Well, I would say it's pretty evident that I don't.
Good thing I buy a great curriculum for my kiddies!
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