This is the horrifying moment a freight train slammed into a bus in Mississippi on Tuesday, killing four people and injuring dozens.
Eyewitness Garland Andrew captured the tragedy on cell phone video as the train crashed on into a bus full of Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos.
‘People losing their life right in front of you,’ Andrews told KTRK.
In the video, a number of shocked bystanders is heard while the bus is stalled and the freight train approaches, honking heavily.
Then comes a deep thud followed by a deafening screech as the train slams into the bus, pushing it along the tracks.
‘I prayed and cried and called my mom,’ Andews told KTRK.
Four senior citizens were identified as the four people killed in the Tuesday accident.
Ex-assistant principal Peggy Hoffman and her husband Ken, from Lockhart, Texas, died in the horrifying crash in Biloxi that also injured forty people.
Their former employers, Lockhart School District, said in a statement: ‘We feel their loss deeply across the district, remembering the mark that they made upon us and upon a generation of children in our community.’
Clinton Havran, 69 of CLinton, was also killed at the scene. Deborah Orr, 63 of Bastrop, died after undergoing surgery at Merit Health Biloxi on Tuesday night.
The cause of the deadly collision is under investigation, and local police are trying to figure out why the bus was on the tracks.
VIDEO Video shows Mississippi train slam into bus, killing four | Daily Mail Online
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