Breaking...Bus carrying Texas prisoners falls off overpass

[ScreamingMeemie]

onto train tracks. Fatalities reported.

http://news.yahoo.com/bus-carrying-prisoners-involved-west-texas-fatal-wreck-163023806.html

PENWELL, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a bus carrying 12 prisoners and three corrections officers fell from an overpass in West Texas and crashed onto train tracks below, killing an unspecified number of people.

Department of Public Safety trooper Shawn Baxter, who is en route to the scene west of Odessa near Penwell, could not confirm details Wednesday morning but said it was a fatal accident.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the DPS reported that a train may have collided with the bus or been struck by it after the bus fell from the overpass.

A spokeswoman says Medical Center Hospital in Odessa is treating five patients had no more information.

[MohRokTah]

1. 10 dead, 5 hurt

https://twitter.com/AP/status/555408326616711169

[PeaceNikki]

2. Ugh, that's awful.

[PeaceNikki]

3. And it was hit by a train according to this report

http://news.sky.com/story/1407897/prison-bus-falls-off-overpass-and-hit-by-train

[Daemonaquila]

6. That's so horrible.

If you insist on incarcerating people, you also owe them a very high duty of care while they're helpless in your hands.

[MineralMan]

4. Icy overpass, apparently. People in Texas

aren't as familiar with that situation as they are in Minneapolis, but we still have plenty of crashes on overpasses here, too. A very bad outcome.

[Capt. Obvious]

5. My gut tells me that Richard Kimball survived

[MindPilot]

7. That would be a horrific experience.

Prisoners ride in those buses with wrists and ankles shackled.




Imagine being restrained like that during, and even worse, after a vehicle crash.