A commercial tour bus ran off Interstate 95 in Caroline County early today and flipped on its roof, killing four people and injuring most if not all of 53 others on board, Virginia State Police said.
All of the remaining people aboard the 60-passenger bus were taken to hospitals from Fredericksburg to Hopewell, except for the driver, who suffered minor injuries, said Sgt. Thomas Molnar, a state police spokesman. Passenger injuries ranged from minor to serious and life-threatening.
The northbound interstate was expected to be closed until at least noon at the site of the wreck, less than a mile south of the Carmel Church exit at mile marker 104 in southern Caroline.
Traffic was being detoured at Exit 98 and placed back on 95 at Carmel Church.
The route of the bus and its owner or operator were not immediately released because authorities were still trying to notify family members about the 4:55 a.m. wreck, Molnar said.
Details were not immediately available on what caused the crash.
About 9 a.m. two funeral home vans arrived to transport those who were killed.
The wreck happened near interstate shoulder construction work, but state police said that was unconnected to the cause of the wreck, which was not immediately released.
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Interstate shoulder construction in Virginia is a neverending enterprise. I have been travelling parts of 495 near Aleandria for over 4 years--there has been absolutely no progress made in the construction there. Guaranteed taxpayer funded welfare for highway construction workers!!!
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