The Nation - News from July 15, 1986
A Trailways bus and a tractor-trailer making a U-turn across a median on Interstate 40 collided near Brinkley, Ark., injuring 29 people, four seriously, authorities said. The truck driver, Earle Wayne Gipson, 29, who was not hurt, was charged with reckless driving, possession of drug paraphernalia, crossing the median and not having an Arkansas driver’s license, officials said. Some of the injured suffered severed limbs, they said. The bus was on its way from Oklahoma City to New York.
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