NTSB Team Visits Scene of Deadly Ohio Interstate Crash Involving Busload of High School Students

Signs in support of the Tusky Valley Schools community in front of the elementary school shortly before a community prayer vigil at the Tuscarawas Valley Schools football stadium in Zoarville, Ohio, on Nov. 14, 2023. Andrew Dolph/Times Reporter via AP

ETNA, Ohio—A federal investigator looking into an Ohio bus crash that killed three students, two parents, and a teacher with a high school band group praised on Wednesday the “good Samaritans” who rushed to the scene of the highway crash.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said numerous police and fire departments responded to the scene shortly after the Tuesday crash on westbound Interstate 70 in Licking County, about 26 miles east of Columbus. Among them were some Gahanna officers who were heading to a training event when they learned of the accident and went directly to the scene.