St. Ignatius holding special Mass for 16 hockey players injured in Indiana bus crash

CHICAGO (WLS) — St. Ignatius Faculty Prep will maintain a particular Mass Monday after 16 scholar hockey gamers had been injured, some critically, after a bus crash in Indiana.

The crash was in Warsaw, within the north-central a part of the state Saturday night time.

Sixteen St. Ignatius Faculty Prep college students had been critically injured Saturday night time after a semi-truck crashed into their bus in Warsaw, Indiana, flipping it over. Warsaw is situated about 50 miles south of South Bend. Police stated the truck was seen swerving at dashing at round 8 p.m.

Twenty three scholar athletes from the St. Ignatius junior varsity boys hockey staff and two coaches had been on board. At the least one scholar was ejected from the bus.

The staff was heading to a resort after dinner after competing in a match earlier within the day.

“Proper now prayer is a very powerful factor,” St. Ignatius Faculty Prep President John Chandler stated. “We had 16 college students that had been injured, 5 had been admitted to the hospital. At this cut-off date, all of them shall be returning to well being, however some for much longer than others.”

Police imagine alcohol was an element.

Warsaw police stated the officers detected a powerful odor of alcohol from the 58-year-old truck driver who they are saying failed a subject sobriety take a look at. He is now going through doable felony expenses.

“We’re grateful for the respect of privateness for these households and in addition really ask for prayers,” Chandler stated. “Many individuals in our neighborhood have reached out saying, ‘What can we do?’ And that is the good present of St. Ignatius neighborhood.”

In the meantime, one St. Ignatius mother or father who has additionally dealt with quite a few trucking negligence circumstances as an legal professional is providing authorized counsel and steering to the households.

One St. Ignatius mother or father is doing what she will be able to to assist. Not solely is she a mom of two St. Ignatius college students, however she can be an legal professional who has dealt with quite a few trucking negligence circumstances, serves because the Senate appointee to the “Transfer Over Activity Pressure” and has testified earlier than the Home for stricter trucking legal guidelines

Elizabeth Kaveny is now providing authorized counsel and steering to households affected without spending a dime.

“It was simply panic, simply panic,” Kaveny stated. “What do I do? How do I repair this?”

Now, as her two worlds collide, she knew she might and needed to be of service.

“They’ll need to undergo a complete legal continuing in one other state and a few of them are going to look to a civil continuing on this state or in Indiana. So numerous them are going to wrestle with, what do you wish to do subsequent,” she stated. “I’ve talked to a few households already that simply needed to cry with me they usually simply stated they did not know what they wanted, they did not even have any questions but, however they simply needed to cry and inform me what it occurred. I simply stated, ‘I do know, I do know. It will be OK, it may be OK, you are going to be OK.’”

The college informed ABC7 a number of the households have since returned to Chicago, whereas others might have to stay there for a bit as these critically damage college students get better within the hospital.

In the meantime, that Mass shall be held at 3:30 p.m.. as lots of these college students proceed to get better.