AP Austin (Texas)
Austin (Texas)
Updated Friday, March 29, 2024-11:19
The Hays School District, in
Texas
, has released a video of the accident that a school bus suffered when it collided with a truck last week and that
claimed the lives of a five-year-old boy and the driver of the truck
.
The video, recorded by a
camera installed on the bus's dashboard
, captures the moment when a cement truck invades the opposite lane in which the bus in which
40 preschool students were returning from a trip to the zoo was
traveling .
The truck collided with the bus on March 22 on a rural road outside
Austin
and ended up overturning. In the video you can see how the cars that were traveling on the road stop on the shoulder and come running to help the injured parties.
There were also
11 adults
traveling on the bus . Several injured people had to be hospitalized.
The accident remains under investigation. Authorities have not specified the speed at which the vehicles were traveling.