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U.S. NEWS Saturday 1 September 2018

3 kids among dozens

injured in deadly New

Mexico bus crash

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRY- director of the hospital's
AN trauma unit. "We have
Associated Press been in contact with fam-
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ily members of several of
— Three children, including the patients, and several
two infants, were among of them have been able to
the dozens of passengers talk to their families."
seriously injured when the The crash killed eight peo-
commercial bus they were ple and injured many of
riding in was hit head-on by the 49 people aboard the
a semitruck on a New Mex- Greyhound bus heading
ico highway, killing eight to Phoenix from Albuquer-
people, hospital officials que. Several passengers This photo provided by Chris Jones shows first responders working the scene of a collision be-
said Friday. were being treated Friday tween a Greyhound passenger bus and a semi-truck on Interstate 40 near the town of Thoreau,
Officials at University of at hospitals in the Gallup N.M., near the Arizona border, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.
New Mexico Hospital in Al- area, about 30 miles (48 Associated Press
buquerque said 10 patients kilometers) from the crash
are hospitalized there, in- site.Authorities said Friday across the crash. The semi's thing like that before," Soto fied the truck driver or the
cluding three adults who they were working on posi- trailer was upside down said. trucking company, saying
are in intensive care, one tively identifying those who and "shredded to pieces," Chris Jones was headed the investigation is ongo-
of whom is in critical condi- were killed through finger- and the front of the bus west on Interstate 40 when ing. The National Transpor-
tion. prints and other means. was smashed, he said, with he caught his first glimpse tation Safety Board is help-
Some patients were ex- The semitrailer was headed many of the seats pressed of the semi turned over. He ing investigate.
pected to undergo surgery east on the freeway Thurs- together. stopped to help and came Greyhound spokeswoman
Friday and Saturday. While day afternoon when one Truck driver Santos Soto across the driver of the Crystal Booker said in a
doctors declined to of- of its tires blew, sending III shot video showing the semi. statement that the com-
fer specifics, they said the the rig carrying produce front of the Greyhound "He was sitting there on the pany was cooperating with
patients that came in dur- across the median and into sheared off and the semi shoulder on the front road, authorities and will also
ing the hours that followed oncoming traffic, where it split open, with its contents still in shock, trying to figure complete an investigation
Thursday's crash on Inter- slammed into the bus, New strewn across the highway. out what was going on," of its own.
state 40 near the Arizona Mexico State Police said. He saw people sobbing on Jones said. A pile of debris remained
border had injuries that Passing motorists described the side of the road as by- He said the driver told him on the shoulder of the
ranged from head trauma a chaotic scene with pas- standers tried to comfort that one of his front tires highway Friday, but trans-
to spine fractures and other sengers on the ground and them. had popped, forcing the portation crews had yet to
broken bones. people screaming. "I was really traumatized truck to veer into oncoming clear it because they said
"Several of them will have Eric Huff was heading to myself, because I've been traffic, where it slammed it contained evidence and
a long road of recovery the Grand Canyon with his driving about two years into the bus. belongings from the bus
ahead," said Sonlee West, girlfriend when they came and I had never seen any- Authorities have not identi- passengers.q

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