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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, October 14,
Six killed after church bus
hits cotton truck in Louisiana
By Barbara Powell
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLULAH, La. — A
church bus taking senior citizens
on a tour of historical sites
slammed into a cotton-hauling
tractor-trailer on the shoulder of
a highway Monday, killing six
people and injuring at least nine.
The bus driver survived the
wreck and told investigators he
fell asleep at the wheel before
crashing into the truck, state
police said. Someone on the bus
yelled, awakening him just
before impact, state police
Trooper Julie Lewis said.
Fifteen people were on the bus
when it crashed around 11 a.m. on
Interstate 20 in northeastern
Louisiana. The truck driver, who
had pulled onto the shoulder to
check his brakes, suffered minor
head and neck injuries.
Thirteen passengers and two
drivers were headed toward
Vicksburg, Miss., on the second
day of what was to have been a
16-day trip sponsored by their
Baptist church in Texas, state
police trooper Julie Lewis said.
The “senior ambassador
tour” was to include visits to a
Mercedes-Benz factory in
Alabama, the Grand Ole Opry
in Nashville and the Civil War
battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa.
Lewis said each passenger
paid $960 for the trip, spon
sored by the First Baptist
Church of Eldorado, Texas, a
town of about 2,000 people
some 160 miles northwest of
San Antonio.
Lewis said the injured were
taken to several hospitals in
Mississippi and Louisiana, and at
least one was injured critically.
The bus driver, Kenneth J.
Thomas, 66, of Eldorado, suffered
moderate injuries. Identities of the
passengers were being withheld
while families were notified.
Carolyn Mayo, Eldorado city
secretary, said the senior citi
zens on the bus included retired
teachers and a retired nurse.
“This is a real active group
— they have lots and lots of
active members,” said Mayo,
adding that the group usually
takes two trips each year.
The bus and the truck
remained upright on the side of
the road after the crash, but the
front end of the bus was demol
ished — pushed up under the
rear of the 18-wheeler’s trailer,
its engine driven back against
the steering wheel by the
Fatal bus accident
A church bus from Texas crashed
into a tractor-trailer Monday on
eastbound Interstate 20justwest
of Tallulah, La., killing six
and injuring at least nine.
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impact. Bales of cotton, seals
from the bus, pillows and
ing littered the highway.
Emergency crews said no
passenger was ejected but some
were thrown partly out of the
open side of the bus.
Traffic in the eastbound lanes
of 1-20 was shut down for about
20 miles between Tallulah
Waverly. One lane was
after 5 p.m. Monday.
Tornado
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“We’ve actually considered as a club to get with
the city and see how feasible it would be to put (a
system) in place,” Walter said.
Marion Alcorn, head of A&M’s Atmospheric
Sciences’ Department of Weather said meteoro
logical experts predict that more severe weather
can be expected due to shifts in specific atmos
pheric cells.
“Some people think that there will be more
severe weather, but it’s questionable,” Alcorn said.
“1 don’t think we’re any more susceptible.”
Alcorn said the peak season for tornadoes is in
the springtime.
Despite the lack of sirens, A&M has
plans for dealing with severe weather.
“(The University) just purchased 45 weather
radios. We are placing one in each hall on campusto
inform people in hall of inclement weather,” Meyer
said. “Residence Life has a phone call out system-
there is communication.”
Brazos County has its own plans for dealing
with severe weather in 2000 with
Interjurisdictional Emergency Management
Should severe weather occur, residents would be
informed and advised by speaker-equipped
cles, while rural residents would be informed
door-to-door.
Meyer said residents can keep updated
severe weather by tuning into local television
tions and radio stations.
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Monday in the pediatric inten
sive care unit and remained in
critical but stable condition.
“After coming back from the
operating room last night the
twins have had a remarkably
stable course,” Thomas said.
“They have really thrown us no
surprises in the process.”
The boys, who shared an
intricate connection of blood
vessels but have separate brains,
were in drug-induced comas to
minimize the risk of brain
swelling. They were expected to
stay that way for the next two or
three days, he said.
Both were on mechanical
ventilators and require low
doses of medication to keep
their blood pressure within the
normal range, Thomas said.
There was more good news
after the boys had brain scans
Monday morning: no hemor
rhaging and minimal brain
swelling. Said Thomas: “The
neurosurgery team is quite
pleased with what they see.”
The boys have been getting
plenty of visitors, with members
of the surgery team checking in on
them and visits from two Egyptian
nurses who have cared for them.
Both parents were up late into the
night and their mother accompa
nied them to the brain scans.
The boys were physically
separated about 26 hours after
they entered the operating room.
Doctors then went to work cov
ering the head wounds.
The boys don’t have a bony
covering for their brains, but
skin expanders placed in their
heads and thighs about five
months ago created skin and tis
sue to cover the wounds.
Ahmed’s wounds were com
pletely covered by his own tis
sue, but Mohamed had small
areas at each temple that were
not covered by tissue and even
tually will require grafts.
After fainting when he was
told that his sons were separat
ed, Ibrahim Mohammed
Ibrahim cautiously approached
the boys as he saw them apart
for the first time.
“1 think dad was so over
whelmed that he almost hesitat
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to get in — as if gathering
self before he walked into the
room,” Thomas said.
The boys’ mother, Sabah Abu
el-Wafa had cried upon hearing
the boys were separate. She
“clearly” moved as she looked
at her two separate sons,
Thomas said.
The boys were born on June
2, 2001, by Caesarean section
in Egypt. The Dallas-based
World Craniofacial Foundation
a nonprofit group that
children with deformities of the
head and face, arranged to
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2002 for an evaluation.
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