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SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2001
Kids Die in Wyoming Plow - Bus Crash ALBIN, Wyo. –– A snow plow slammed into a school bus on an icy road Wednesday, killing two children and injuring three other people. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. about eight miles north of the small ranching community of Albin, Wyoming State Patrol trooper Perry Jones said. "We are receiving reports now of two fatalities, both involving children," he told KMGH-TV in Denver. The bus apparently had just made its first stop of the day and was carrying just three students when it was hit by the plow on a bend in the road, said Gary Robertson of Albin, who went to the accident scene. The plow struck the bus behind the driver's seat, he said. The bus appeared to have been spun around by the impact but remained upright, Robertson said. The plow turned over in a ditch. "The ice was heavy enough on that particular stretch of highway you almost couldn't stand up straight on the road," Robertson said. One child, a girl, was dead at the scene, and an 8-year-old boy died later at the Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb., police said. Dave Hall, a spokesman for the United Medical Center in Cheyenne, said the 53-year-old bus driver was in serious condition with chest and abdominal injuries. Two other people were taken there for treatment of minor injuries, an 18-year-old student and the 62-year-old snow plow driver. © Copyright The Associated Press
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