The FINANCIAL — An Abilene Christian University bus veered off a Texas highway and overturned on Friday, ejecting several of those onboard, killing a 19-year-old student and critically injuring four other people, officials said.
The school-owned bus was carrying 12 agricultural studies students, three faculty members and a faculty member's wife from Abilene to Medina, where they were going to spend the weekend doing mission work at a children's home, school spokesman Grant Rampy said.
"These were students from our agriculture department, heading to an annual service project to help a children's home in town," he told AP.
The driver, 34-year-old faculty member Michael Nicodemus, lost control as the bus was entering a bend on US 83 near the town of Ballinger, about 90km southwest of Abilene, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The vehicle hit a concrete culvert and did a complete roll, ejecting several passengers, the DPS said. It ended up a shredded, metal wreck.Anabel Reid, a student from Petersburg, was pronounced dead at the scene, and everyone else who was on the bus was taken to one of four area hospitals. Four of the injured were in critical condition, Rampy said.
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