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DPS Update on Bus Wreck Outside of Timpson

 

The Wreck Happened yesterday "5/24/17" this is just the offical press release from the DPS

 

SHELBY COUNTY –Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers are
investigating this morning on US 59 a three vehicle injury crash involving a school
bus.
 
The preliminary crash information indicates at approximately 7:30 a.m., a Timpson
ISD school bus was stopped loading students about four miles north of Timpson -
with flashing red lights activated - in the northbound lane on US 59 when it was
struck from behind. A 1995 Mack dump truck sideswiped a 2010 Kenworth truck
tractor that was stopped for the school bus, then struck the back left of the school
bus.
 
At this time, preliminary reports indicate five children have been transported to a
local hospital for evaluation and treatment of minor injuries.
The driver of the dump truck is identified as Benjamin Salazar, 55, of Wells, TX.
He was not reportedly injured.
 
The driver of the school bus is identified as Sabra Sessions, 28, of Nacogdoches,
TX. Sessions was transported to Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital with unknown
injuries.
 
The driver of the Kenworth truck tractor is identified as Abel Longoria III, 41, of
Brownsville, TX. Longoria was not reportedly injured in the crash.
 
This investigation remains ongoing. No additional information is available at this
time.
 
 
 

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