10 Killed in Prison Bus Crash in West Texas

[txradioguy]

Eight inmates and two corrections officers died Wednesday when a prison bus skidded off an icy West Texas highway, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing freight train, authorities said.

The overpass on Interstate 20 was slick with ice Wednesday morning when the Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus left the roadway in Penwell, just west of Odessa, according to Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson.

An earlier accident on the I-20 overpass may have contributed to the prison bus losing control, Donaldson said.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed the 10 deaths in a statement, adding that four prisoners and one corrections officer were injured. The bus driver and another corrections officer were among those killed.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Officials-Prison-Bus-Involved-in-Fatal-Wreck-288552971.html

[docstew]

Thoughts go out for the families of the Officers who died, and hopes for the recovery of those injured.

Some small sympathy for the dead prisoners, in that none were convicted of capital offenses, but not much. They weren't on that bus for giving blankets to old folks or rescuing abused dogs.

[Ptarmigan]

Thoughts go out for the families of the Officers who died, and hopes for the recovery of those injured.

Some small sympathy for the dead prisoners, in that none were convicted of capital offenses, but not much. They weren't on that bus for giving blankets to old folks or rescuing abused dogs.

My thoughts too.