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y Associated Press, Published: March 12 | Updated: Tuesday, March 13, 5:24 AM 环球网记者李宗泽报道,据美国中文网3月12日报道,美国印第安纳州波利斯市警方说,一辆校车12日早上8点撞上一座铁路桥墩,司机和一名儿童死亡,另外至少12名学童受伤,其中两人伤势危急。
报道说,当地电视13台网站wthr.com报道,车祸发生在靠近埃默森大道和东南大道。目前尚不清楚校车司机为何失控,空中电视录像显示校车前部撞毁,校车司机和一名儿童当场死亡,死去的儿童据说是一个五、六岁的女孩,但有关部门还没有公布死者姓名。
校车上受伤的其他12名儿童已被送往医院。除了两名伤势危急者之外,其余10人都是撞伤或擦伤。当地维沙德医院已经为8名没有受到生命危险创伤的学生治疗;莱利儿童医院正在治疗两名受重伤的学童。
报道指出,目前还不知道这次车祸的原因,只有这一辆校车卷入此次车祸。但当地电视台报道,车祸发生时,天在下雨,警方调查人员说他们不知道天气是否与车祸有关。
[size=1.5em]INDIANAPOLIS — A school bus making its morning rounds slammed into a railroad bridge Monday, ripping apart the driver’s section and sending crying children scrambling to escape. [size=1.5em]A 5-year-old girl and the driver were killed and two other students were critically injured, authorities said. [size=1.5em]The crash happened just before sunrise after rain showers had moved through the area, but authorities didn’t know what caused the bus to crash into the concrete pillar in the middle of a city street. They were awaiting autopsy results on the 60-year-old driver.Mitch Gibboney said he was on his way to work at a nearby trucking company around 7:45 a.m. Monday when he saw smoke coming from under the bridge. Because it was dark, he didn’t realize until he got there that the smoke was coming from the bus.Gibboney helped lead some children out a side door near the middle of the bus. Other passers-by also rushed to help.“They were shaken up and bruised and a little bit bleeding. Some of them were crying,” Gibboney said. “I saw a couple holding their arms and wrists and a couple of them had bloody noses where they probably hit the seat in front of them.”The bus was carrying 50 students to Indianapolis Lighthouse Charter School on the city’s east side, city fire Capt. Rita Burris said. The impact tore apart the front end of the bus, smashing in the first several feet of the driver’s side.Police identified the girl killed as Donasty Smith and the driver as Thomas Spencer II, 60, of Indianapolis. Two male students were critically injured and were taken to Indianapolis hospitals along with eight others whom Burris characterized as “walking wounded.”Burris said fire department crews spent about 45 minutes extricating four trapped people, including a student who was tangled inside a wheel well.The students ranged in age from 5 to 16, Burris said. Uninjured students were taken to the school — which has about 650 students from kindergarten through high school — about two miles away.The driver of another school bus that was behind the one that hit the bridge and an approaching car told investigators the bus wasn’t speeding in the 35 mph zone, police spokesman Anthony Schneider said.“Boom! It just hit,” Schneider said. “They didn’t see anything like the bus swerving.”Tami Presley told WISH-TV she was on her way to work when she came upon the crash scene.“I couldn’t figure out what it was that was under the bridge,” Presley said. “As I was pulling under I just see kids just start jumping off. They were all screaming and crying.”She said she tried to console the children and that a paramedic on board the bus was trying to help the injured.Kevin Mays, who works at the nearby CSX Transportation rail yard, said he walked over to the scene about five minutes after the crash. The bus was so crumpled that he expected to see terrible injuries.“There was a lot of chaos and crying from the kids,” Mays said.Lighthouse student Dimitri Smith, 15, missed the bus and was riding to school with his grandfather when he saw the accident scene.Smith told The Indianapolis Star the bus driver was “a really cool guy.”“He wanted all of us to be safe, and he was a good bus driver,” he said.The bus is owned by Miller Transportation. A woman answering the phone at the company’s Indianapolis office said it would have no comment.Beth Bray, who works for the Indianapolis mayor’s office and was helping to answer the telephone at the school Monday, said the school had no comment on the crash Monday.“We’re trying to help parents and get everybody coordinated,” she said.The school dismissed its students at midday, several hours earlier than normal.Also Monday, a school bus in Washington state overturned on a highway, injuring dozens of students, including three seriously. The bus veered off the road, overcorrected and rolled on Highway 281 just south of Quincy, an agricultural region about 120 miles east of Seattle, said Lt. Scott Martin of the Washington State Patrol.Martin said the cause was under investigation. Roads were bare and dry when that bus rolled.Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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