Episode 168: The Prestonsburg bus crash

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It was a clear winter's day, and there was no reason to think the trip to school on bus #27 would be any different than any other day. But as driver John DeRossett steered the bus around the curve after Knottly Hollow, what happened next would devastate the entirety of Floyd County, Kentucky.

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