Spanish Fort, AL : One person dead in a wrong way SUV and Bus collision on Monday July 28th 2014

Police investigators do not know why a sport utility vehicle was being driven in a wrong lane on Battleship Parkway on Monday when it crashed into a bus.

The crash claimed the life Shawn Wiggins, 35, of Mobile. He was driving a Chevrolet S10 Blazer west in an eastbound lane when it crashed into a Baldwin Rural Area Transportation System bus, Spanish Fort Police Chief David Edgar said.

The Police Department was called to the crash at 5:31 p.m. The SUV brushed against a Ford Explorer before hitting the BRATS bus, Edgar said.

Edgar said investigators did not find any signs at the scene that indicated Wiggins was impaired, but his blood will be tested to make sure he was not.

"We have a couple of witnesses that saw him cross the median, so we are interviwing those," Edgar said. "A vehicle inspection may give us a little bit more insight."

We are just very sad about the fatality and that family is in our thoughts and prayers." —Taylor Rider, bus system director
The bus had picked up passengers at Bienville Square in Mobile and was headed to the Eastern Shore at the time of the crash, said Taylor Rider, the BRATS director.

The bus driver, Raymond Mayo, 65, of Fairhope, and the 11 passengers on the bus were taken to local hospitals after the crash, officials said.

"Our driver is out of the hospital and doing well," Rider said. "Most of the other passengers are out as well. I don't have a final (number) on that."

No one in the Explorer was hurt, Edgar said.

The chief said he is not sure how long it will take to figure out why Wiggins was driving in a wrong lane on Battleship Parkway.

"We are working on it as dilligently as we can," he said. "There are so many variables. We are just going to have to see where it goes."

Rider said the bus system is back on its normal route schedule. He also said the bus system will continue with plans to provide transportation to Fort Morgan for this weekend's 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay and the Siege of Fort Morgan.

"We are just very sad about the fatality and that family is in our thoughts and prayers," Rider said

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SUV traveling in wrong lane led to bus collision, 1 death