Dozen Grambling State Students Hurt In Bus Crash

Written by WGNO ABC26 News Friday, 06 November 2009 12:45

ABC26 News

A dozen students and a driver where hurt
when three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State
University marching band were involved in a pileup on a highway in
southern Arkansas.

Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said four buses from
the school in north Louisiana were near Fordyce on Friday afternoon
when the second bus slowed, resulting in the two trailing buses
each hitting the bus ahead.

Sadler said none of the injuries appeared to be
life-threatening. In all, 126 students were aboard. The injured
were taken to a Fordyce hospital.

Grambling is scheduled to play Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 1 p.m.
Saturday in Little Rock.

Fordyce is about 65 miles south of Little Rock.

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