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This Day in History: Deadliest drunken driving crash in US history kills 27 on school bus
Marcus Dean
This Day in History: Deadliest drunken driving crash in US history kills 27 on school bus
mhm Well if it was *** fireball, it was just looked like it was just coming, just coming straight at us, the same flames and everybody screamed and started panicking and everybody headed towards the back of the bus and everybody was getting stacked on top each other and running over each other. Nobody could get out that most of the people who died on the bus and *** lot of those who are seriously injured are injured and dead because they tried to save someone else's life and I did what I could, I wish I could have done more because there's still *** lot of people that even seasoned police officers were shaken by what they witnessed inside the morgue. As the death toll continued to mount during the afternoon, it's *** horrible task for anyone who cares anything about human life. Mhm remains of the people, we're positioned in such *** fashion to indicate purposeful conscious activity to flee the the bus through the back door apart and possibly through some windows. Mm hmm. I'm sure there are *** better place than we are. And I hope they enjoyed the short time that they had and that their families will be okay. I'm just trying to be tough. That's all I can say right now. I think I'll cry *** lot in *** week. I think that you could go down to the church and I think *** lot of the Children are thanking God that the back door was operational. That that was the way they got out. Mhm Yeah
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This Day in History: Deadliest drunken driving crash in US history kills 27 on school bus
Marcus Dean
On May 14, 1988, 27 people were killed in a bus crash, the deadliest drunken driving crash in the nation.It happened on Interstate 71 in Carroll County, Kentucky, about half way between Cincinnati and Louisville, following a church youth group's visit to Kings Island. The bus was carrying 67 people, mostly children with the Radcliff youth group, when it was struck by a drunken driver traveling on the wrong side of the interstate."Most of the people who died on the bus, and a lot of those who are seriously injured, are injured and dead because they tried to save someone else's life," one survivor said shortly after it happened.Most of those who died, 24 in all, were children. Three adults died. Meanwhile, 34 others were injured."I (sic) seen flames and everybody screaming and started panicking. Everybody headed towards the back of the bus," another survivor said. "And everybody was getting piled on and stacked on top of each other, running over each other. Nobody could get out."Most of those who died were trapped inside of the bus and unable to escape.Larry Mahoney, the driver of the pickup truck that struck the bus, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He was released after serving 9 1/2 years.On the eve of the 30-year anniversary in 2018, survivors shared their stories. Quinton Higgins was among those on the bus; he was 15 years old."People will never know what it's like, even for us, to have been on that bus that night, but for all them to lose their life that night, there were two 10-year-olds. They didn't know they were going to die. So if you can just get in your mind what that's like, so yeah, we have to stand for them still," Higgins said.Higgins was one of many who met at North Hardin High School to spread the message that drunken driving needs to stop.
CARROLL COUNTY, Ky. —

On May 14, 1988, 27 people were killed in a bus crash, the deadliest drunken driving crash in the nation.

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It happened on Interstate 71 in Carroll County, Kentucky, about half way between Cincinnati and Louisville, following a church youth group's visit to Kings Island.

The bus was carrying 67 people, mostly children with the Radcliff youth group, when it was struck by a drunken driver traveling on the wrong side of the interstate.

"Most of the people who died on the bus, and a lot of those who are seriously injured, are injured and dead because they tried to save someone else's life," one survivor said shortly after it happened.

Most of those who died, 24 in all, were children. Three adults died. Meanwhile, 34 others were injured.

"I (sic) seen flames and everybody screaming and started panicking. Everybody headed towards the back of the bus," another survivor said. "And everybody was getting piled on and stacked on top of each other, running over each other. Nobody could get out."

Most of those who died were trapped inside of the bus and unable to escape.

Larry Mahoney, the driver of the pickup truck that struck the bus, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He was released after serving 9 1/2 years.

On the eve of the 30-year anniversary in 2018, survivors shared their stories. Quinton Higgins was among those on the bus; he was 15 years old.

"People will never know what it's like, even for us, to have been on that bus that night, but for all them to lose their life that night, there were two 10-year-olds. They didn't know they were going to die. So if you can just get in your mind what that's like, so yeah, we have to stand for them still," Higgins said.

Higgins was one of many who met at North Hardin High School to spread the message that drunken driving needs to stop.