1 Dead, Dozens Injured When Bus Carrying Tennessee Youth Football Team Leaving Dallas Crashes in Arkansas

Posted on December 3, 2018

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BENTON, Ark. (AP) –  One child is dead and more than 20 people are hospitalized after a charter bus carrying a youth football team from Tennessee crashed in Arkansas early Monday morning.

Arkansas State Police said the wreck happened along i-30 near Benton, about 25 miles southwest of Little Rock. The department said the bus, which is owned by Scott Shuttle Service of Somerville, TN, veered off the interstate and overturned.

Investigators said the bus driver told police she lost control of the vehicle.

Authorities said as many as 40 people were injured, most of them children between the ages of 9 to 12 years old. They were taken to hospitals in Benton and Little Rock.

The Orange Mound Youth Football Team had been in a championship tournament in Dallas over the weekend and was headed back home to Memphis.

It’s a historically African-American community in southeast Memphis, where kids train to be a part of the highly competitive Melrose High School Squad.

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