Entire Bluffton baseball team injured, 6 killed.

[TheAdmin]

ATLANTA - A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio plunged off a highway ramp early Friday and slammed into the pavement below, killing six people, injuring 29 and scattering sports equipment across the road, authorities said.

The bus, carrying the team from Bluffton University, a Mennonite-affiliated school south of Toledo, Ohio, toppled off the Northside Drive bridge onto a pickup truck on Interstate 75 in clear, pre-dawn weather, police spokesman Joe Cobb said.

 

[James]

jeez this is terrible, apparently this spot on the highway has had a history of bad accidents, always bad to see something like this happen, but when its a bunch of college athletic students, man, thats just terrible.

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

Just read this at cnn.com. What a tragedy.

 

[James]

so far CNN has said the driver of the bus and the wife of the bus driver died as well as 4 of the members on the team.

 

[crazedcav333]

Horrible tragedy. Unimaginable.

 

[TrueCavsFan23]

That is very bad,i was told Bluffton is near Toledo?My thoughts and prayers go out to all the friends,family,and people in the accident.This is just a terrible thing to see.

 

[Cavs1]

Yes it is about 50 miles south of Toledo or something. One of my roommate's best friends died in this crash - his name was David Betts. He played with David on the baseball team at Bryan Highschool. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the families and friends that this crash has affected. Very tragic.