CHICAGO, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A 71-year-old man who lost his wife in a weekend bus accident that killed 14 people near Marion, Ark., has filed the first lawsuit against the bus company.
A wrongful death suit seeking damages in excess of $50,000 was filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of McKinley Jacobs, whose 61-year-old wife, Fannie Jacobs, was killed when the tour bus ran off Interstate 55 early Saturday morning, CLTV, a cable television outlet said.
Fifteen of the 30 passengers remain hospitalized.
The bus owned by the Walters Bus Co. Inc. was taking a group of friends and family members from Chicago on a weekend gambling outing to Tunica, Miss. The bus veered off the highway and flipped over as it plowed into the ground shearing off the top of the vehicle.
Federal transportation officials are investigating maintenance records and trying to determine whether the 67-year-old driver fell asleep on the 10-hour trip.
