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NATION, Page 21American NotesTEXASDeath on a Clear Day
At 7:40 a.m. last Thursday, the yellow school bus was bound
for schools in Mission, Texas. Approaching at a crossroads was a
soft-drink delivery truck. The truck and bus suddenly collided, and
the bus veered into a gravel pit filled with water 20 ft. deep.
Passing driver Mike Herrera quickly jumped into the pit and
helped three students out of the bus. Al Nye, who was driving his
own children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from
the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children
were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible to see.
Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and
one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm
alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were
injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus
accident in Texas history.