LaPlata, MD : 3 dead in assisted living facility bus crash in Charles County on Friday, 13th September 2024

Three people on an assisted living facility bus died after the bus crashed into a dump truck head-on in LaPlata, Maryland, early Friday, authorities say.

Two passengers and the driver of a “senior-living assisted facility transportation bus” were killed, Maryland State Police said in a statement.

Charlie Parker, of Mechanicsville, was the driver, police said. He was 84. The passengers were Cassandra Brown, 61, and Darlene Burrell, 64, both of Waldorf.

Chopper4 video shows the mangled wreckage of the white bus, with catastrophic damage to the front end on the driver’s side.

The crash involving a Sagepoint Senior Living Services bus occurred at Port Tobacco Road and Bowie Road, in a rural portion of the county, shortly before 8 a.m.

According to the initial investigation, the bus was headed west on Port Tobacco Road when “for unknown reasons,” the driver lost control and hit an eastbound dump truck head-on.
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