Pomeroy, Iowa (KTIV/RI) – A college’s bus traveling on a Northwest Iowa highway crashed Wednesday morning, sending dozens of people to the hospital and resulting in one student’s death.
The Iowa State Patrol says shortly after 11 a.m. on Feb. 11, the bus crashed on Iowa Highway 4, near 220th Street, just west of Twin Lakes.
According to ISP, the bus belonged to Iowa Lakes Community College and had gone off the highway and overturned in a ditch. Authorities say only the bus was involved in the crash.
The ISP says there were 33 people on the bus, with injuries ranging from minor to serious. Officials at the scene say one of the bus’s occupants was declared dead after rescue personnel arrived. The ISP later identified the student as 19-year-old Carter Johnson of Rapid City, South Dakota.
Calhoun County Emergency Management Coordinator Richard Hall says three people were also airlifted to a Des Moines hospital.
As of today, officials say all of those injured are in stable condition.
Authorities say there was an Iowa Lakes Community College van in the area as well, with six occupants, but it was not involved in the crash.
Officials with Iowa Lakes Community College have confirmed that members of their baseball team were on the bus. A student told KTIV that the bus was taking the team to Arkansas for a game.
Wednesday afternoon, in the wake of the crash, ILCC held a candlelight vigil on the Estherville campus. The vigil was private and wasn’t open to the media.
The crash remains under investigation.
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