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Ohio interstate crash involving busload of high school students leaves 3 dead, sends 15 to hospital

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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 three people dead and 15 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. There were a total of 57 people onboard. The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed that people were killed in Tuesday’s crash but declined to comment further. The crash took place shortly before 9 a.m. on Interstate 70 West in Licking County. The cause wasn’t immediately known.

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