This Day in History: Deadliest drunken driving crash in US history kills 27 on school bus

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This Day in History: Deadliest drunken driving crash in US history kills 27 on school bus

mhm Well if it was *** fireball, it was just looked like it was just coming, just coming straight at us, the same flames and everybody screamed and started panicking and everybody headed towards the back of the bus and everybody was getting stacked on top each other and running over each other.

"Most of the people who died on the bus, and a lot of those who are seriously injured, are injured and dead because they tried to save someone else's life," one survivor said shortly after it happened. "I seen flames and everybody screaming and started panicking. Everybody headed towards the back of the bus," another survivor said."And everybody was getting piled on and stacked on top of each other, running over each other. Nobody could get out."Larry Mahoney, the driver of the pickup truck that struck the bus, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He was released after serving 9 1/2 years.

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