St Louis Bus Crash – Accident Left 2 Dead

A St Louis bus crash today, August 5, left two dead and at least 50 people injured. Two school buses packed with children crashed into a tractor-trailer in the Interstate 44 crash near Gray Summit, 32 miles west of St. Louis.

According to the report, the buses were carrying eighth-grade St. James band students to the Six Flags amusement park roughly 10 miles from the crash scene.

Footage of the scene showed metal ladders leaning into the windows of the crumpled yellow buses on the side of the highway as emergency crews surrounded the scene. One of the buses mounted the tractor-trailer in the force of the collision.

Details about the injuries were not immediately known.