Colorado tour bus crash
A tour bus veered off an icy mountain highway in central Colorado late Saturday, crashing on its side and injuring 8 people, 2 of them seriously, authorities said.
The bus was carrying 46 people en route to a winter resort town when the accident occurred about 8:20 p.m. MST on Highway 114, about eight miles southeast of Gunnison, the Colorado State Patrol said.
“The bus apparently failed to negotiate a curve, rolled off the road and onto its right side,” Trooper Nate Reid told The Associated Press.
He described driving conditions as “bad,” — icy and snowpacked and the stretch of highway had several curves.
Reid said none of the eight people hospitalized had life-threatening injuries. Two were rushed to a Grand Junction hospital with serious injuries, while the other six were hospitalized in Gunnison with moderate injuries.
The other 38 people aboard the bus were taken by a school bus to a hospital in Gunnison, about 140 miles southwest of Denver.
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