Bus crashes

West Memphis, Ark.

A bus packed with gamblers flipped over beside Interstate 55 in Arkansas this week, killing 14 people. The passengers were a tight-knit group of friends from Chicago, most of them retirees who traveled twice a year to a Mississippi casino. The bus toppled without warning around 5

The roof was sheared off, and passengers were scattered across a field. “They woke up and were outside on the ground,” the uncle of one victim said. One of the 16 survivors said she awoke as she flew out a window. Investigators did not immediately determine the cause of the crash, which claimed the life of the driver.

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