Tennessee I-40 Bus Crash Leaves At Least 8 Dead

Tennessee I-40 Bus Crash Leaves At Least 8 Dead
In Tennessee, a bus crash on I-40 was responded to on Wednesday. Emergency personnel search the scene near the collision, in Dandridge, Tenn, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Michael Patrick
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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A crash in Tennessee on I-40 involving a bus, a tractor trailer, and a SUV has left at least eight dead and 14 others injured.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said that the bus was traveling east on I-40 when its left tire blew out. The bus crossed the median and crashed into a tractor trailer, which clipped a SUV. The bus flipped over and the tractor trailer immediately caught fire, reported WBIR.

I-40 is closed in both directions around the crash site, which is at the 422 and 423 mile markers on the highway.

Six of the eight people who died were on the bus, which is from a church in North Carolina. One person who died was from the SUV, and the other was from the tractor trailer.

Another 14 injured people were transported to UT Medical Center. 

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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