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WORLD IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Driver in Oxford Bus Crash Arrested

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

The driver of a bus that overturned while carrying U.S. teen-agers in a special program at Oxford University has been arrested, police said. Two of the Americans died in the Thursday crash. All 59 others on board the bus were injured, 16 of whom remain hospitalized. Police identified the dead as students Lawrence Levine, 16, of Chappaqua, N.Y., and Autumn Dubose, 18, of Lilburn, Ga. The driver of the double-decker bus, Gan Sharma, was charged with causing death by reckless driving, police said. They added that alcohol was not a factor in the accident.

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