Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestonsburg,_Kentucky_bus_disaster

i recall when i was a boy hearing storys about  the prestonburg school bus disaster

The collision and plunge into a river involving a school bus near Prestonsburg, Kentucky on February 28, 1958, was the most disastrous bus accident in United States history.

the reason why the 

Home Branch School historical in Floyd County, KY

was open for so many years till near 1985 was that parents

refuse to bus there childern during that time to school by bus

into prestonburg

Home Branch School historical in Floyd County, KY was located

on the other side of the hills

http://kynghistory.ky.gov/history/4qtr/addinfo/pburgbusdisaster.htm

Here is a list of the people who died in the 1958 Floyd County school bus disaster:

Doris Faye Burchett, 15, of Emma

James Edison Carey, 9, of Emma

Glenda May Cisco, 17, and her brother, Kenneth Forest Cisco, 14, of Sugar Load

Sandra Faye Cline, 8, and her sister, Paulette Cline, 9, of Lancer

Imogene Darby, 17, of Cow Creek

Linda Darby, 14 of Cow Creek

John Alex DeRossett, 17, of Water Gap

James Edward Goble, 12 his brother, John Spencer Goble, 11, and sister, Anna Laura Goble, 9, of Emma

Jane Carol Harris, 14, of Emma

John Harlan Hughes Jr., 13, of Emma

Margaret Louise Hunt, 15, of Cow Creek

Bucky Ray Jarrell, 14, and his sister, Katie Carol Jarrell, 13, of Sugar Loaf

Marcella Jervis, 14, of Emma

Montaine Jervis, 15, of Endicott

Thomas Roosevelt Jervis, 13, of Buffalo Creek

Katherine Justice, 15, of Endicott

Nannie Joyce McPeek, 17, of Lancer

Joyce Ann Matney, 14, and her sister, Rita Cheryl Matney, 8, of Lancer

James L. Meade Jr., 9, of Lancer

James Thomas Ousley, 15, of Lancer

Randy Scott Wallen, 17, of Lancer

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