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The collision occurred at about 3:45 p.m. local time, when
the bus failed to yield to an oncoming train at a crossing near
Larimore, according to the Grand Forks Herald. The newspaper
said the 62-year-old bus driver and a 17-year-old student were
killed.
Altru Hospital in Grand Forks said in a statement it had
received 10 patients from the collision. Six were admitted,
three were transferred and one was discharged, the hospital said
without describing the injuries.
A total of 14 people were on the bus, according to the
newspaper. Troy Hischer of the North Dakota Highway Patrol told
the Herald the students were of various ages.
The bus was traveling north on a gravel road when it was struck
on its right-front side by a westbound BNSF train, the newspaper
reported. Railroad signs and a stop sign are at the crossing,
which is not equipped with railroad crossing arms, according to
the paper.
Weather and road conditions were not factors in the crash,
Hischer told the Herald.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Editing
by Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)
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