Villaroel said he also was on the upper level of the bus sleeping when he was awakened by screams. "Some people were carrying other people off the bus." "Panic at first, then total calm," Villaroel said. People were screaming," said Arns, who got away with just a scrape on her head.Īrns and 22-year-old Enrique Villaroel of Chicago said passengers began helping each other almost immediately after the wreck. Her parents made the 70-mile trip to get her.Īrns was on the top deck of the bus near the back talking to a woman next to her when "all of a sudden it felt like the bus ran over something really, really big." She said she could feel the bus lose control as it rolled into the median and toward the pillar. Others were picked up by relatives, including 27-year-old Megan Arns of St. A double-decker Megabus crashed into bridge pillar on Interstate 55 Thursday afternoon.īy evening, many of the uninjured passengers already had been taken by bus from the community center to St. Collins said she could hear people in the front of the bus moaning and crying. The teenager said that when the bus struck the pillar, she flipped out of her seat and landed on a stairway leading to the lower deck. It felt like the bus was going to tip over." The passengers were either uninjured or mildly injured and included some children, Johns said.Ĭollins, who was among those at the community center, was on the upper deck of the Megabus resting when, "all of a sudden, I heard a big boom.
School buses took about 36 passengers from the crash site to the community center in Litchfield, said Janis Johns, transportation director of Litchfield Community Unit School District 12. The hospital spokeswoman would not release his condition. A 24-year-old man was being treated for multiple fractures at Saint Louis University Hospital. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital spokeswoman Liz Kalicak said two patients, one in serious, the other in fair condition, were being treated. She said none of the injuries were life threatening. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, said 22 people were brought to the hospital for treatment, with two of them admitted due to bone fractures. Memorial Medical Center spokesman Michael Leathers said late Thursday that seven people were being treated at the hospital, but he declined to reveal their conditions. Louis hospitals and three were flown by helicopter to a hospital in Springfield, Ill. The trooper said 33 people were taken by ambulance to hospitals, two were flown by helicopter to St. "Somebody reported to us it was a blown tire, but we haven't confirmed that yet." "We don't know what happened," Francis said. Twenty ambulances and two medevac choppers responded to the scene where a Megabus crashed into a bridge pillar in Illinois Thursday afternoon. Louis and Columbia, Mo., before arriving in Kansas City.
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