FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Belle Glade pastor says he's working with authorities to help identify the five people killed and 25 injured when a bus carrying Haitian farmworkers collided with a tractor-trailer and burst into flames.
Pastor Frantz Gaudard said several onboard, including the bus driver, were church members. He said two buses left from Georgia where they had been working, but only one returned. Authorities said the bus was carrying roughly 34 adults and children when it ran a flashing red light and a stop sign before hitting the tractor trailer in the Florida Panhandle on Saturday. Both vehicles caught fire.
The farmworkers did not speak English and most of their documents were burned in the crash. Some of the victims are in intensive care and are in and out of consciousness.
Guadard said he spoke briefly by phone with the bus driver.
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7/3/2016 11:55:33 AM (GMT -4:00)
