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9 US skiers die in bus crash
08/01/2008 10:06 - (SA)
Mexican Hat, Utah - A ninth person died on Monday after a bus carrying skiers home from a Colorado resort plunged off a damp, twisting highway in south-eastern Utah and landed 12.5 metres below with its tyres ripped away and the roof destroyed.
Those killed included four teenagers, officials said. About 20 other people from the Phoenix area were injured on Sunday night, some seriously, authorities and hospital officials said.
"There were lots of head injuries, glass, broken limbs. ... Everybody was just looking for help. We had to sort through it," Hook said.
The ninth victim, a woman, died at a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, said Trooper Cameron Roden of the Utah Highway Patrol.
The Arrow Stage Lines bus was southbound on State Route 163 when it veered off the two-lane road and dropped off an embankment. Weather was not considered the main factor, although it played a role in the subsequent rescue.
"The main thing we're looking at is the driver failed to negotiate the turn," Roden said.
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