CALHOUN CITY, Miss., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A collision Tuesday between a school bus and a semi-tractor trailer killed both drivers and a teacher, authorities said.
The head-on crash occurred at 2 p.m. near Calhoun City, 120 miles north of Jackson, the (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger reported. The bus was carrying seniors at Ackerman High School in Choctaw County who were returning from a field trip to the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Calhoun County Coroner Jerry Fleming said the truck driver sideswiped a school bus before hitting a second one head on. He did not release the names of the dead but said the teacher was a woman and the bus driver was also an assistant football coach at Ackerman.
Ray Hall, a state trooper, said several students were injured but most were not severely hurt. One was taken by helicopter to North Mississippi Medical Center.
