RUSHVILLE, IL : 5 killed in Ill. school bus crash with semi on Monday, 11th March 2024

Five people, including three children, were killed in western Illinois when a school bus and semitruck collided on a highway Monday, authorities said.

The bus was traveling eastbound when it crossed the center line on U.S. Route 24 into the westbound lanes “for an unknown reason” and into the path of a semitruck carrying sand, Illinois State Police Troop 6 Capt. Jody Huffman said at a news conference.

Both vehicles caught on fire in the crash. The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. in Rushville, a Schuyler County community of about 3,000 roughly 60 miles west of Springfield.

All four people aboard the bus from Schuyler-Industry Schools — three children and the driver — as well as the driver of the semitruck were killed.

Nexstar’s WCIA reported that the Illinois State Police said the five people killed in the crash have been identified as 3-year-olds Noah Driscoll and Andrew Miller; 5-year-old Maria Miller; 57-year-old Angela Spiker, all of Rushville, Illinois, and 72-year-old David Coufal, of Browning, Illinois.


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