Tragedy in Atlanta

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- At least six people were killed when a charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio fell from an overpass onto Interstate 75 early Friday in Atlanta, police said.
Dozens also were injured in the crash just before dawn north of downtown, Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Byron Kennedy said.
Nine of the victims were in serious condition, Atlanta police spokesman Joe Cobb said, and another 20 were "walking wounded." There were 35 people on the bus, he said.
The bus exited I-75 south but apparently did not stop at the top of the exit ramp, plunging off the Northside Drive bridge onto the southbound lanes of the expressway, according to two drivers, whose vehicles were hit by the bus or debris falling off it.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter said he saw the wreck during his morning commute and initially thought it was a jack-knifed tractor-trailer before realizing it was a bus.
"There were young people crawling out of the bus. I just tried to help them as best I could," Mike Morris said.
The bus was carrying members of the Bluffton University baseball team, which according to its Web site, was scheduled to play Eastern Mennonite University on Saturday in Sarasota, Florida, before heading to a tournament in Fort Myers, Florida.
Bluffton University is a Mennonite Church USA affiliated-school south of Toledo, Ohio.

 

unbelieveable...

speechless and God speed to all involved directly or indirectly

 

I was so shocked to wake up this morning to hear this news. This is really a sad day for baseball communiy and for Bluffton University. As a member of a basbeall team, I couldnt imagine something happen like this. I can only imagine what their teammates are going through that got left behind. We can only pray for them and for their families and thier teammates.

 

My heart goes out to the players, their families and all others involved. Yes, let's remember them in our prayers.

 

Our prayers go out to all the families. It is such a shock.
My daughter's college softball team will be traveling the same route to Atlanta this afternoon.

 

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Terrible, terrible news !!!! Really puts life in perspective. Maybe the worst college athletic disaster since the Marshall University tragedy. Prayers for all involved.