TRAGIC

Child Dead, 40 Injured as Youth Football Team Bus Overturns on Arkansas Interstate

In overnight accident on Arkansas interstate on way home to Memphis.

One child was killed and at least 40 other people were injured when a bus carrying a youth football team overturned after running off an interstate in Arkansas early Monday, authorities said. According to Memphis TV station WMC, the bus was carrying an elementary-school-age football team from the Orange Mound Youth Association in Tennessee. Arkansas State Police say the bus was traveling to Memphis after the team played in a championship game in Dallas. Twenty-four patients who were transported Arkansas Children’s Hospital are in stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The driver survived the crash and is being questioned by investigators, police said.