At 7:40 a.m. last Thursday, the yellow school bus was bound for schools in Mission, Texas. Approaching at a crossroads was a soft-drink delivery truck. The truck and bus suddenly collided, and the bus veered into a gravel pit filled with water 20 ft. deep.
Passing driver Mike Herrera quickly jumped into the pit and helped three students out of the bus. Al Nye, who was driving his own children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible...
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