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Report of Bus Accident in Sherman, Grayson County 080808

The State of Texas State Operations Center (SOC) received a report of a charter

bus accident in Sherman, Grayson County, on US Highway 75 and Park Street. The

bus from Houston to Missouri, rolled over causing multiple fatalities and

injuries. There are a confirmed twelve fatalities and thirty-six injured. The

thirty-six have all been transported to local hospitals. (Grayson County EMC,

Sherman PD and Sherman DPS) Sub 1A

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SHERMAN, Texas - A charter bus ran off a highway overpass north of

Dallas and crashed onto its side on a roadway below, killing at least 13

and sending at least 24 people to hospitals.

The bus carrying 55 people to Missouri from Houston may have blown a

tire, said Sherman police Lt. Fair.

Police say 12 people died at the scene. Another died at a Dallas

hospital, a Parkland Memorial Hospital spokesman told The Associated Press.

They were members of a Vietnamese church on a pilgrimage, KHOU-TV reported.

The bus came to a rest on its right side in the northbound lane of an

access road below U.S. 75 around 12:45 a.m. Friday. Scores of injured

were rushed to Sherman and Dallas hospitals via helicopter ambulances.

A spokeswoman at N. Medical Center in Sherman said it was

treating 15 patients. Five of those were critical condition and the

conditions of the others were not immediately available. One person

first brought to the Sherman hospital was transferred to

Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. That person's condition was not

immediately known.

The conditions of two women who were taken to Baylor University Medical

Center at Dallas were being evaluated, a hospital spokeswoman said. Two

people — a male and female — were in critical condition at Methodist

Dallas Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The Parkland spokesman said three men and one woman from the crash were

in critical condition there, and another woman had died.

Northbound traffic on the highway was shut down as ambulances and

helicopters used the roadway and median to ferry the injured to hospitals.

KHOU-TV quoted a Galveston/Houston archdiocese church official as saying

many of those on the bus were from the Vietnamese Martyrs Church of

Houston and were on their way to a religious festival honoring the

Virgin in Carthage, Mo. At least four translators were brought to

the scene, the Herald Democrat of Sherman reported.

The accident happened less than a mile from the spot where a trucker

crossed the median and killed 10 people five years ago.

Sherman is about 65 miles north of Dallas.

Report of Bus Accident in Sherman, Grayson County 080808

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> The State of Texas State Operations Center (SOC) received a report

> of a charter bus accident in Sherman, Grayson County, on US Highway

> 75 and Park Street. The bus from Houston to Missouri, rolled over

> causing multiple fatalities and injuries. There are a confirmed

> twelve fatalities and thirty-six injured. The thirty-six have all

> been transported to local hospitals. (Grayson County EMC, Sherman

> PD and Sherman DPS) Sub 1A

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