TERRELL, Texas?A chartered bus taking youngsters to a church camp crashed into the concrete pillar of an overpass Monday, killing the driver and four passengers, authorities said.
At least 36 other people were injured in the accident about 30 miles east of Dallas. The bus was carrying more than 40 people and had departed from Garland.
The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately determined, said state Department of Public Safety Cpl. Joe Applewhite. The wrecked bus was loaded onto a trailer and taken to a site where it will be inspected.
The bus was one of two taking middle and high school students and some adult chaperons to a church camp in Ruston, La.
Most of the victims were members of Metro Church of Garland.
On Sunday, a chartered tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls, N.Y. to Waterbury, Conn. Crashed near Rochester. Five people were killed.