OT - Truck on Freeway Crashes into Van killing 10 Amish
- From: Pneuma <frank.spama@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:28:27 -0700
latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-kentucky-crash27-2010mar27,0,543982.story
latimes.com
11 killed when truck, church van crash in Kentucky
Associated Press
10:25 AM PDT, March 26, 2010
MUNFORDVILLE, Ky.
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A truck crossed a Kentucky interstate median and slammed head-on into a
Mennonite church van headed to a wedding, killing 11 people, state police
said Friday.
State police Trooper Charles Swiney said two children survived the crash
with the tractor-trailer on northbound Interstate 65.
A pastor for the family in the van said they were Mennonites on their way
to a wedding in Iowa. Authorities say the truck driver, who was from
Alabama, was also killed.
Officials say the tractor-trailer crossed the median and struck the van
head-on around 5:30 a.m. CDT near Munfordville, about 75 miles south of
Louisville.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was dispatching a team to
investigate the crash.
Pastor Leroy Kauffman with the Marrowbone Christian Brotherhood in
Burkesville, about 55 miles southeast of the crash site, says the two
surviving children were taken to a nearby hospital.
Joe Middleton, a supervisor at Caverna Memorial Hospital in Horse Cave,
said two survivors from the accident were taken there and released around
10 a.m.
He couldn't confirm their identities or injuries due to privacy laws, but
said it was his understanding they were the only two survivors of the
crash.
Kauffman said there were three young children on board ages 1, 3 and 5. He
said the father was an assistant pastor at the church and there was also a
couple on board the van who were engaged to be married, although they were
traveling to someone else's wedding.
"They had a July wedding planned but they won't need that now," Kauffman
said. "They'll have a wedding in heaven I guess."
He said the family's house burned down in December and they had just moved
into a new home built by church members.
"We're experiencing a lot of heartache and a lot of sadness, but with that
a hope," Kauffman said. "We know where these people are going, they were
all saved Christians and walking with the Lord."
The crash is one of the most deadly traffic accidents in recent Kentucky
history. On May 14, 1988, 27 people were killed in a fiery bus crash
caused by a drunken driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 in Carroll
County. That bus was owned by the First Assembly of God church in Radcliff
and was filled with youths returning from an amusement park.
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