Girl Scout Bus Overturns in Nevada; 40 Hurt
Forty people were injured, four of them seriously, when a bus carrying Girl Scouts home from camp Tuesday ran off a mountain highway, flipped on its top and slid more than 100 yards.
The four most seriously were airlifted to University Medical Center here from the crash scene 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
“They were pretty fortunate, considering the damage to the bus,” said Don Abshier, a supervisor for Mercy Ambulance of Las Vegas and one of the first rescue workers to reach the scene.
Medical Center spokesman Dale Pugh said the four were a 36-year-old woman, two 12-year-olds and a 9-year-old.
The overturned bus, owned by Western Coach Co. in Las Vegas, was discovered along Nevada 156 shortly after noon by a state Division of Forestry Conservation Camp crew.
Shellie Williams, a spokeswoman for the Frontier Girl Scout Council in Las Vegas, said the Scouts, ages 7 to 14, were returning from a seven-day outing at the Foxtail Girl Scout Camp in the Lee Canyon area of Mt. Charleston.
Abshier said that when he arrived at the scene, the bus was on its roof and lying across the highway.
He described the section of the road where the accident occurred as being fairly straight and not too steep.
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