Video: 'Chilling new video surfaces of 1958 bus crash'
(Friday, February 28, 1958, 8:10 a.m. EST) — A school bus carrying forty-one children struck the rear of a wrecker truck on U.S. Route 23 today and plunged today over a fifty-foot cliff into the swollen waters of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River near Prestonsburg, Kentucky, where it was swept downstream and submerged.
22 children managed to escape, but 26 other children and the bus driver drowned. At the time, it was the deadliest bus crash in U.S. history.
