Reece Alexander, 6, gets a kiss as he is picked up by his relative after a bus accident sent the kids and bus into a creek on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, in Butler County, Kan. The driver was taken to a hospital to be checked for hypothermia and one child was seen being placed in an ambulance, but the Butler County sheriff said all of the children were eventually turned over to their parents. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Fernando Salazar)
Serious accidents are commonplace in Peru where roads are poorly maintained and safety rules lax [Al Jazeera]
Members of the public prosecutor’s office and rescuers work on the site of the bus accident, about 65 km west Guatemala City Photo: AFP/GETTY
By Reuters
9:01PM BST 09 Sep 2013
Investigators do not yet know what caused the crash or what was the final destination of the bus, which was traveling south toward Guatemala City. Rescue workers said that conditions were dry and mostly sunny and that the bus was likely over capacity.
“There are 38 dead, among them six children and 12 women,” said Sergio Vasquez, a volunteer firefighter at the site of the accident.
Local television said many of those on the bus were vendors taking farm produce to market.
The last major bus accident in Guatemala occurred in 2008 when an overcrowded bus slid off a highway and down a 15-metre (50-foot) slope some 65 km (40 miles) southeast of the capital, killing 53.
By RENSON MNYAMWEZI
Voi, Kenya: Ten people sustained serious injuries after the bus they were traveling in was involved in a road accident along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
Police said the Saturday morning accident occurred at Ndara area near Voi town involved a bus and a trailer.
Ndara area is regarded as one of the major black spots in the country.
Taita-Taveta Police Commander Richard Bitonga told The Standard that 10 passengers were admitted to Voi district hospital with multiple injuries.
He said five accident victims were still admitted to the hospital in critical condition while five others were treated and discharged. Thirty-six other passengers however escaped unscathed said Bitonga.
The police commander said the bus was traveling from Mombasa to Mwingi at the time of the accident.
He said the bus driver was trying to overtake a trailer traveling in the same direction without calculating the distance of the incoming vehicle.
In the process to avoid head on collision, the bus driver swerved back to his lane hence hitting the rear side of the lorry.
The police boss said the bus veered off the road and overturned injuring the passengers.
Bitonga said the driver escaped immediately after the accident and a manhunt for him had been launched.
May 25, 2013: A pontoon boat is in shambles after it collided with a speedboat on a North Carolina lake. (myfox8.com)
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A pregnant woman and a young child were killed Saturday when their family’s boat collided with a speedboat on a North Carolina lake.
Wildlife officials said a speedboat collided and went over the top of a pontoon boat around 12:30 p.m. Saturday on the northern part of the High Rock Lake near Linwood.
MyFox8.com reports all the victims were family members on the pontoon boat. The child was between 2 and 4 years old. The woman was ejected from the boat and her body was recovered by a search crew later in the afternoon.
Another adult male was injured in the crash, and the family’s dog is also missing. The father, who was driving the boat, was not injured and no one on the speedboat was injured.
Officials are trying to determine what caused the collision. They say speed may have been a factor, though there is no indication that alcohol was involved.
No one on the pontoon boat was wearing life jackets, officials told MyFox8.com. They said the speed boat was driving well over 25 mph in a shallow part of the lake.
www.itv.com – A 150 car pile up occurred today, Thanksgiving morning, on interstate 10 near Beaumont, Texas. Heavy fog blanketed the area and was responsible for the accidents. Two people were killed and between 80 to 100 were taken to area hospitals, eight were seriously injured.
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