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16 injured as bus carrying high school girls’ basketball team rolls over in West Virginia Over a dozen injured as bus carrying girls high school basketball team rolls over in West Virginia
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A bus carrying a high school team from a basketball tournament has rolled over in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Sixteen people were injured; two of them are in critical condition. A bus carrying a high school team from a basketball tournament overturned in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Over a dozen people were injured, with one student airlifted to a trauma center.
The bus was transporting the Martinsburg High School team, which had just played in the Big Atlantic Classic tournament, when it crashed on the Eisenhower Drive I-64 entrance in Beckley, WV, local media reported. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but the Berkeley County school system said that it was a single vehicle accident.
Twelve students and two adults were hurt in the incident and taken to the hospital. One patient was flown to a trauma center in Charleston, WV via helicopter.
The bus was transporting the Martinsburg High School team, which had just played in the Big Atlantic Classic tournament in Beckley, WV. It crashed at it was entering I-64, according to local media. The school principal, Trent Sherman, tweeted that everyone “escaped serious injuries.”
Sixteen people, including 14 teens and two adults, were hurt in the incident and taken to the hospital. At least one patient has been flown to Charleston. Earlier reports said 14 people were hurt in the incident, but the number was updated. The team received no life-threatening injuries and is “doing well,” one player wrote.
Martinsburg’s Lady Bulldogs played against Greenbrier East at the tournament earlier in the evening. The Martinsburg Lady Bulldogs played against Greenbrier East in the tournament earlier in the evening.
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