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13 Killed In Tour Bus CrashReported by: Web ProducerFriday, Aug 8, 2008 @10:15am CST13 Killed, Dozens More Injured In Texas Tour Bus Crash(Sherman, TX) -- Thirteen people are dead and dozens more have been taken to local hospitals after an overnight tour bus crash in far north Texas.Sherman Fire Chief Jeff Jones says most injuries were serious and needed rapid care.He says most of the injuries were crushing wounds, and there were very few "walking wounded." Jones adds there was a small fire either inside or around the bus, so the victims who could walk, were able to climb out.Some victims were thrown from the bus, while others had to be rescued by first responders on the scene.Authorities believe the right front tire blew out, causing the bus to crash through a guard rail and land on its side in a small ravine along U.S. Highway 75.The passengers were Vietnamese Catholics from Houston on their way to a religious celebration in Carthage, Missouri.
Two Houston bus companies, tied to the same owner and located at the same address, are under scrutiny in connection with the bus crash that killed 14 people in North Texas.As paramedics and police transported the dead and injured from the crash site today, state and federal investigators learned that neither Angel Tours nor Iguala Busmex had the authority to operate outside of Texas, records show.The bus that crashed was carrying people to an annual religious festival in Missouri.Both companies, based at the same Telephone Road address on Houston's East End, are owned by Angel De La Torre. Neither was authorized by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to operate outside of Texas.Angel Tours had its operating authority rescinded by the FMCSA in June. Iguala's application for out-of-state travel was pending, but had yet to be approved.Attempts to reach De La Torre were unsuccessful. No one answered the phone at the company's offices and no one answered the door at De La Torre's home, next-door to the bus companies.As a Chronicle reporter knocked on the door early this morning, a car owned by De La Torre quickly left the home's secured garage.The Texas Department of Transportation's Motor Carrier Division confirmed today that Angel Tours, although registered and allowed to operate within Texas, is not authorized to travel across state lines.Iguala Busmex is not registered with TXDOT.TxDOT investigators say they were still trying to determine who owns the bus more than 10 hours after the crash."We're still waiting on a VIN number or license plate or some identification of the bus," said Robert Anderson, a TxDOT investigator.Bus companies that are cited or put out of service often turn to operators that are in compliance and lease their buses with as little as a handshake."Iguala's bus could be under Angel Tours with a lease agreement," Anderson said.Angel Tours' drivers have been cited at least eight times in the past 2 1/2 years, mostly for not keeping accurate records of how many hours they worked.In May, the company was fined $1,910 for using a driver before he had undergone a pre-employment physical exam. Angel Tours also was fined $1,550 for using a driver who had not been medically re-examined in the past 24 months.The bus, bound for Missouri for an annual religious celebration, crashed at about 12:45 a.m. in Sherman, about 300 miles north of Houston.The passengers were from the Vietnamese Martyr Catholic Church in southeast Houston and Our Lady of Lavang Church in northwest Harris County.A blown-out tire may have caused the bus to swerve off the overpass, but the investigation is in its early stages, said Sherman police Lt. Bob Fair.The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team of six investigators to Sherman, said spokesman Keith Holloway.terri.langford@chron.com
NEWS RELEASEGod Hates Texas.Yes, indeed. The irreversible curse of Godupon fags and fag-enablers - the "botch ofEgypt•••that cannot be healed." Ct. 28:27.God is punishing Texas forpassing laws against WBC bydevastating bus crashes& many natural disasters.Thank God for 13 deadVietnamese Houstonians in abus crash bound for idolatry.Pray for many more dead.We will picket their funerals.WBC will picket their funerals in religiousprotest and warning; to wit: "Be not deceived;God is not mocked." Gal. 6:7.
...Thank God for 13 deadVietnamese Houstonians in abus crash bound for idolatry.Pray for many more dead.We will picket their funerals....
As if this tragedy isn't horrible enough with the deaths of all those people....Phelps enters into the equation.....somebody just needs to shoot that SOB and make the rest of us happy!!!!<a href="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smileycentral.com%252F%253Fpartner%253DZSzeb008%255FZN%2526i%253D14%252F14%255F6%255F12%2526feat%253Dprof/page.html" target="_blank">
Quote...Thank God for 13 deadVietnamese Houstonians in abus crash bound for idolatry.Pray for many more dead.We will picket their funerals....That man need to be institutionalized, and I mean right the heck now.
