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Telegraph Herald - Dubuque, IA


 
Monday, October 12, 2009
Adult dies, students hurt in bus crash
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INKOM, Idaho -- A bus carrying a celebrated Utah high school band swerved off an Idaho interstate and crashed on its side, killing an instructor and injuring multiple students.

Police identified the person killed in the Saturday wreck as 33-year-old Heather Christensen, of Spanish Fork, Utah, a woodwind instructor for the American Fork High School band.

The band was returning from a competition in Pocatello when the crash occurred at about 7 p.m. MDT on Interstate 15, about two miles north of McCammon and 50 miles north of the Utah border.

Two students were rushed by helicopter to the Portneuf Regional Medical Center in Pocatello. Another 12 students went by ambulance with serious injuries, and 30 were taken to the Pocatello hospital by bus with minor injuries.

Only one student remained in the hospital Sunday evening, and she was expected to be released by today, hospital spokesman Brad Huerta told The Associated Press.


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