Charter Bus Turned Into Sardine Can
The victims Saturday were returning to Chinatown on a chartered bus from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn. Some on board described grisly scenes of mayhem: at least one person decapitated, others maimed, people hanging upside down, victims gashed by flying glass, screaming in the darkness and struggling to get out. Some were thrown out on the ground, others were trapped in a maze of metal.
The driver, Ophadell Williams, 40, told the police that his bus, which was roaring south on the Interstate 95, was clipped by a passing tractor-trailer, which sped away, an assertion that was later under investigation. Out of control, the bus began swerving, toppled on its right side and skidded for 100 yards along a guardrail in showers of sparks, then rammed into the support pole of a large green sign pointing to the Hutchinson Parkway exit.
The pole burst through the front window and sheared the bus in half laterally, from front to back, along the passenger window line, the police said. Firefighters found a section of guardrail inside the shattered bus interior. Aerial pictures showed scenes of carnage and chaos as police emergency service and medical teams converged in a bedlam of wailing sirens and flashing lights.
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