Ohio interstate crash involving busload of high school students leaves 6 dead, sends 18 to hospital

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press

ETNA, Ohio (AP) — A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway, leaving six people dead and 18 others injured. Licking County Emergency Management Agency Director Sean Grady says the charter bus was carrying students from the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District in eastern Ohio. Three passengers on the bus and three people in one of two passenger vehicles involved were pronounced dead at the scene. Three of the vehicles caught fire after the crash shortly before 9 a.m. on Interstate 70 West in Licking County. A National Transportation Safety Board team of investigators was sent to the scene.