A charter bus carrying college football players crashed into a highway overpass in North Carolina on Saturday (Sept. 17), killing four people and injuring over 40 others, WSOC-TV in SC reported.
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A bus carrying a JUCO football team got into a severe accident in North Carolina on Saturday.
Rockingham is located approximately 70 miles southeast of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Gordon says the bus blew a tire on U.S. Highway 74 near Hamlet, North Carolina.
19, along with two other passengers and the driver, Brian Andre Kirkpatrick, 43, of SC, died after the front left tire blew out of a 1993 MCI motor coach bus they were traveling in Saturday shortly before 2:30 p.m.
Photos of the crash scene showed a large bus that was damaged heavily on the driver’s side after apparently crashing into an overpass column.
Jeff Gordon says that some of the victims were actually ejected from the bus when it crashed.
Parents of some of the players were following the bus to the game, saw the crash and pulled over to help the injured.
The charter bus was taking a group of college students from the Rock Hill, S.C., area.
“Everyone pray for Coach Bakari Rawlinson”, Hollingsworth said.
Multiple deaths and dozens of injuries were reported after a football team’s charter bus crashed in North Carolina Saturday afternoon.
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Derrick Crawford of Ramah Juco Academy took to Facebook Saturday morning to promote the “very first College prep football game that will be played in Fayetteville NC today”.
