Two people were killed and dozens rushed to hospitals after a charter bus bound for Oklahoma overturned on a Dallas-area turnpike Thursday morning.
Approximately 40 elderly people were trapped in the chartered bus, which was transporting the retired people to a gambling outing at the Choctaw casino in Oklahoma, according to USA Today.
“There was obviously a lot of pain,” a witness who helped pull victims from the wreckage told NBC DFW. “You had to start with whoever was on top, try to untangle them. People were just screaming.”
The bus belongs to the Cardinal Coach LInes of Mansfield, Texas.
The stretch of State Highway 161, also known as the President George Bush Turnpike, is located approximately 15 miles outside Dallas.
The driver is 65-year-old Loyd Rieve, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. He was investigated in a 1998 accident, but a grand jury declined to indict him on a charge of criminally negligent homicide.
The bus driver was injured in the Thursday accident, which occurred on the President George Bush Turnpike in Irving. It involved only one vehicle.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Lonny Haschel told news agencies that the bus went off the right side of the road, hit a barrier, swerved left across lanes of traffic and struck a concrete median in a grassy area.
“It rode up on top of that concrete barrier, and then rolled on its right hand side, where it came to rest,” Haschel said.
Investigators are looking at several factors, including the vehicle and physical evidence on the road.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it has sent two investigators to the scene of the wreck.
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