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The Florida Freeway Patrol has arrested and charged the motive force of a pickup truck that crashed right into a farmworker bus early Tuesday, leaving eight folks lifeless and 40 others hospitalized.
Authorities confirmed Bryan Maclean Howard was charged with eight counts of DUI manslaughter, in line with a Tuesday afternoon replace from Florida Freeway Patrol (FHP).
The 2010 Worldwide Bus was carrying 53 employees round 6:30 a.m., when the car collided with a 2001 Ford Ranger pickup truck in “a sideswiped method” on West State Street 40 in Marion County, the Florida Freeway Patrol (FHP) mentioned.
After the collision, the bus careened off the highway and plowed by means of a fence earlier than overturning.
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Bryan Maclean Howard was arrested and charged with eight counts of DUI manslaughter following a deadly bus crash in Florida on Tuesday. (Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Of these hospitalized, eight folks have been critically injured, whereas 30 others have been handled for non-life-threatening accidents. Howard was additionally hospitalized with critical accidents, officers mentioned.
“Our sympathies and prayers are with the households of the deceased. According to our duties, the Florida Freeway Patrol will conduct each a radical and exhaustive site visitors crash and legal investigation,” FHP mentioned in a press release.
Identities of the deceased will likely be launched pending subsequent of kin notification.
Officers mentioned a minimum of eight folks have died and 38 others have been injured. (Marion County Hearth Rescue)
In keeping with the Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace, Howard has a prolonged legal historical past courting again to the mid 2000s with expenses together with driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of a crash, trespassing, drug possession and grand theft.
The bus and a pickup truck collided, sending the bus careening off the highway, the place it went by means of a fence, struck a tree and overturned, officers mentioned. (Marion County Hearth Rescue)
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods confirmed throughout a information convention that the bus was carrying migrant employees, which he mentioned was widespread within the agricultural county.
The bus was taking the employees to Cannon Farms in Dunnellon when the deadly crash occurred, officers mentioned.
The investigation into the crash is anticipated to final a minimum of six months. (Marion County Hearth Rescue)
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The Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned West Freeway 40 was closed on account of a “extreme accident with fatalities,” and suggested drivers to take an alternate route.
The bus and a pickup truck collided earlier than the bus careened off the highway, the Florida Freeway Patrol mentioned. (Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace)
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The FHP is main the investigation. FHP Lt. Pat Riordan mentioned the investigation can be “prolonged,” with no conclusion anticipated for a minimum of six months.
