EMERY COUNTY, UT : One girl died and several other people were injured in a crash on Sunday, December, 31st 2017

One girl died and several other people were injured late Sunday night in a crash involving a Greyhound bus in Emery County.

According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a bus traveling from Denver to Las Vegas had just undergone a driver shift change in Green River when it veered off of I-70 near mile marker 113 around 11 p.m.

The bus launched off of a small bluff and smashed into the rocky ravine below, about 200 feet off the interstate.

Lieutenant Steve Salas said passengers began climbing through the windows and out the crushed front end of the bus to escape, but four people including the driver remained trapped.

Lt. Salas said passengers tried to free the pinned driver, while a woman carried her unconscious husband off the bus and up the embankment, before helping others escape.

"One of the passengers actually climbed out of the bus, and came up to the roadway and flagged down a truck driver, and then they actually called in the accident," Lt. Salas said.

A 13-year old girl who had been riding the bus with her mother died at the scene.

The driver and two of the passengers were taken by air ambulance to hospitals, Lt. Salas said, with serious injuries. One was taken to Grand Junction, Colo. and the other was taken to Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo.

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Girl dies, others injured in Emery Co. bus crash