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Date: January 14, 2015 07:56PM
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Ten killed, five injured after Texas prison bus hits train
By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza
AUSTIN, TEXAS | Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:37pm EST
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By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and five badly injured when a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people skidded off an icy highway overpass and hit a moving freight train on Wednesday, officials said.
Two correctional officers and eight inmates died from injuries suffered in the accident near the west Texas city of Odessa, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
"It’s with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of those killed and injured this morning in a tragic accident. Their loved ones will be in our thoughts and prayers," said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Four of the crash victims were in critical condition and the other was in serious condition, according to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa.
The bus was traveling from Abilene to El Paso with 12 inmates and three corrections officers aboard. It was transporting offenders from the Middleton Unit in Abilene, which houses male offenders and is not a high-security facility.
The identities of those on the transport bus have not been released.
The accident appeared to be weather-related, a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
"It seems that there was an ice patch there on the overpass," said Sergeant Elizabeth Barney, who added the bus crashed into the moving train.
She said only the bus driver had a seat belt and the rest of the passengers were seated on benches without safety restraints. Some were ejected from the bus, which she described as a minimum security transport vehicle.
"It is a very horrific and tragic crash," Barney said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate.
The Union Pacific railroad said the bus plunged from the elevated roadway and into one of its freight trains, causing damage to two cars. The two crew members aboard the train did not suffer serious injuries.
"Our sympathies go out to all the victims involved," spokesman Jeff DeGraff said.
(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza in Dallas; Additional reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Editing by Susan Heavey, Peter Cooney and Eric Walsh)
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Ten killed, five injured after Texas prison bus hits train
By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza
AUSTIN, TEXAS | Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:37pm EST
By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and five badly injured when a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people skidded off an icy highway overpass and hit a moving freight train on Wednesday, officials said.
Two correctional officers and eight inmates died from injuries suffered in the accident near the west Texas city of Odessa, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
"It’s with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of those killed and injured this morning in a tragic accident. Their loved ones will be in our thoughts and prayers," said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Four of the crash victims were in critical condition and the other was in serious condition, according to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa.
The bus was traveling from Abilene to El Paso with 12 inmates and three corrections officers aboard. It was transporting offenders from the Middleton Unit in Abilene, which houses male offenders and is not a high-security facility.
The identities of those on the transport bus have not been released.
The accident appeared to be weather-related, a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
"It seems that there was an ice patch there on the overpass," said Sergeant Elizabeth Barney, who added the bus crashed into the moving train.
She said only the bus driver had a seat belt and the rest of the passengers were seated on benches without safety restraints. Some were ejected from the bus, which she described as a minimum security transport vehicle.
"It is a very horrific and tragic crash," Barney said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate.
The Union Pacific railroad said the bus plunged from the elevated roadway and into one of its freight trains, causing damage to two cars. The two crew members aboard the train did not suffer serious injuries.
"Our sympathies go out to all the victims involved," spokesman Jeff DeGraff said.
(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza in Dallas; Additional reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Editing by Susan Heavey, Peter Cooney and Eric Walsh)
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Re: Texas Executed 8 intimates today
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Date: January 14, 2015 08:47PM
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Re: Texas Executed 8 intimates today
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Date: January 14, 2015 11:44PM
Ugh the giant caveman Wrote:
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> intimates as in underwear? A few days of missing
> school and Fox News is a babbling idiot.
Chill out. You now what I mint.
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> intimates as in underwear? A few days of missing
> school and Fox News is a babbling idiot.
Chill out. You now what I mint.
Re: Texas Executed 8 intimates today
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Date: January 14, 2015 11:45PM
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