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<text id=89TT2555>
<title>
Oct. 02, 1989: American Notes:Texas
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Oct. 02, 1989 A Day In The Life Of China
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 21
American Notes
TEXAS
Death on a Clear Day
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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.
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</body></article>
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