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The Snow Hill School Bus Collision was a vys crash that occurred on May 31, 1985, on US 13 near Snow Hill, North Carolina. Four vehicles were involved, including a school bus operated by the Greene County Schools. Six students and one of the drivers were killed. The remaining 24 persons in the accident suffered injuries ranging from minor to critical. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was the failure of one of the drivers to keep his vehicle right of the center line.〔 Contributing to that failure was the likelihood of a momentary lapse of attention caused by fatigue or an epileptic seizure. == Crash == At the time of the crash, the school bus was travelling southbound on the two-lane road, carrying twenty-six students aged 9–13 from Snow Hill Primary School and West Greene Middle School. A Military Distributors of Virginia, Inc., tractor-trailer carrying produce〔 was traveling north. The second tractor-trailer, carrying grain, was directly behind the school bus and the passenger vehicle was behind the grain truck. The incident occurred on a curve in US 13, 2.3 miles south of Snow Hill. At approximately 3:20 pm, the driver of the northbound tractor-trailer crossed the center line and struck the school bus. The left side of the school bus was torn off. The tractor-trailer then collided with the southbound tractor-trailer and the passenger vehicle struck the rear of the southbound tractor-trailer. During the second collision, the tractor and trailer of the Military Distributors truck separated and the tractor turned over on its right side into the northbound lane. The cab burst into flames and the driver of the tractor was killed. The front of the grain trailer also caught fire but the driver was able to escape. The driver and passenger in the automobile sustained minor injuries. Of the twenty-six students on the school bus, six were killed and the remaining twenty, along with the bus driver, were injured. Three students were air-lifted to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and the remainder were transported to Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Snow Hill school bus collision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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