Semi-truck crashes into bus carrying Illinois high school hockey team, leaves at least 15 injured

No less than 15 individuals have been injured after a semi-truck crashed into a faculty bus in Warsaw, Ind. on Saturday evening. The bus was carrying the St. Ignatius School Prep junior varsity hockey group, which had simply left a sport in close by Culver, Ind. 

No less than three individuals are critically damage whereas over a dozen extra passengers are injured. 

In accordance with a publish on the Warsaw Police Division’s Fb web page, the semi-truck driver was arrested on the scene on suspicion of driving whereas intoxicated. After law enforcement officials spoke with the driving force, it was found that the driving force {that a} “sturdy odor” of alcohol on his breath and had slurred speech. 

The driving force failed sobriety exams earlier than being requested to consent to a chemical take a look at, however he refused. A search warrant was later granted, which allowed officers to have hospital workers members acquire blood for testing.

The driving force, who’s a 58-year-old man from New York, is at the moment being detained on prices that embody working a car whereas intoxicated and inflicting severe bodily harm.

Video from the scene confirmed that the varsity bus’ rear was smashed in whereas the truck suffered injury to the entrance following the collision.

The crash occurred round 8 p.m. on Saturday night on Freeway 30 in Kosciusko County, Ind.

Police introduced that officers responded to stories of a semi-truck with New Jersey registration that was swerving out and in of lanes at an “extreme” fee of velocity. A short while later, officers turned conscious that the semi-truck struck the varsity bus and the bus landed on its facet. In the meantime, the truck finally stopped after veering off the highway right into a ditch.

In accordance with eyewitnesses on the scene, the semi-truck driver went by way of a purple mild moments earlier than colliding with the bus because it tried to show.

The Warsaw Police Division additionally said that there have been 23 college students between the ages of 14 and 17, two coaches and a driver that occupied the bus. No less than 16 of these onboard have been injured and at the least one juvenile was ejected from the bus on account of the crash.

Two of the injured juveniles have been taken to Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital through ambulance whereas the third was transported to Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital. The remaining gamers and coaches, together with the bus driver, have been taken to Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital in a bus that was supplied by Warsaw Neighborhood Colleges.

In accordance with the group’s official web site, the St. Ignatius School Prep junior varsity hockey group, which is predicated within the Chicago space, was taking part in in a match in Culver, Ind. this weekend. The group was heading again to its resort when its bus was hit.