Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster

When

28 Feb 1958

Kind

Road accident

Coordinates

37.67° N, 82.72° W

Description

1958 accident involving a school bus and the drowning deaths of twenty six children

Deaths

27

1958 bus crash in Prestonsburg, Kentucky

The Prestonsburg, Kentucky, bus crash occurred on February 28, 1958, on U.S. Route 23 in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States, when a school bus carrying 48 elementary and high school students struck the rear of a wrecker truck, causing the bus to plunge into the icy waters of the rain-swollen Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River. Of the 49 people on board, 26 students and the bus driver were killed in the crash.

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