Yesterday morning, a bus ran into a blinking red light and took away Five people's life when it collided collided with a semi-truck.
Residents of Wakulla County in Florida have been asking officials to put in a traffic light at the intersection of Coastal Highway 98 and Woodville Highway for a long time. According to UPI the intersection is known for being the site of one deadly crash after another.
The bus crash that occurred on Saturday morning was seen as the worst crash residents have ever seen at that intersection.
ABC 13 News Now, says an Exxon gas station sits at the deadly intersection and the manager explained that she had seen countless vehicles crash there, though this was the “worst wreck at the intersection” that she had ever seen.
The crash occurred when the driver of the bus sped through a blinking red light and slammed into the side of a semi. The 1979 retired school bus knocked into the truck just behind the driver’s side door, then the bus spun around and crashed into the truck a second time.
The crash pushed both vehicles off the road and forced them into a pole that caused a power line to snap. As a result of the live wire slapping against the side of the vehicles, firefighters were unable to immediately use water to put out the fire that erupted.
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