March 16, 2007

Bus Crash Kills 4 Bluffton U. Athletes

By SARA LIPKA and JEAN EVANGELAUF

Four members of the Bluffton University baseball team were killed this month when their team bus plunged off an interstate-highway overpass in Atlanta, on a trip to a spring-break tournament in Florida.

Thirty-three players and coaches, many of them sleeping, were on board when the bus dropped about 30 feet onto Interstate 75, landing on its side. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash, which happened just after 5:30 a.m. on March

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