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Consider exit ramp changes in bus crash

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Published: March. 5, 2007 at 12:52 PM

ATLANTA, March 5 (UPI) -- Federal and state officials will discuss possible changes to a highway exit ramp in Atlanta where a bus full of Ohio college athletes crashed Friday.

The bus driver, his wife and four students from Bluffton University were killed when the Florida-bound bus careened through the overpass of Interstate-75 at Northside Drive, falling some 30 feet, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Findings so far are fueling speculation the driver may have been confused by the signage at the unusual left-hand exit.

One of the baseball players who survived the crash was quoted as saying he awoke to hear the bus driver's wife screaming, "It's not the highway."

National Transportation Safety Board member Kitty Higgins told a news conference she will talk to Georgia officials about changes to the I-75 exit.

"I will certainly talk to the state people to see whether there's anything they can do as an interim measure so that it's not business as usual there," Higgins said.

Topics: Kitty Higgins
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