A look at other deadly bus crashes in the U.S., Pennsylvania

Five people were killed in a violent bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Sunday, adding to a long history of deadly bus crashes across Pennsylvania and the United States.

Deadliest U.S. bus crashes

Sept. 17, 1963: Fifty-three farm workers were on a flatbed truck being used as a makeshift bus when it was struck by a train in Chualar, Calif. There were no gates separating the dirt road from the railroad tracks, and 32 farm workers were killed in the collision.

May 21, 1976: A bus carrying a high school choir from Yuba City, Calif., plunged off a freeway off-ramp, landing on its roof. The crash killed 28 students and a teacher.

Feb. 28, 1958: A school bus carrying 48 students from the Floyd County School District rear-ended another vehicle and fell down an embankment in Prestonsburg, Ky. The bus landed in a tributary of the Big Sandy River and was swept away and submerged, killing 27.

May 14, 1988: A converted school bus carrying 67 children and adults home from a church trip to an Ohio amusement park burst into flames when a drunken driver slammed in the bus head-on on Interstate 71 in Carrollton, Ky. All on board survived the crash, but one door was jammed and another blocked by a cooler, and 27 passengers died in the flames.

May 10, 1999: A charter bus taking almost 50 people from New Orleans to a Mississippi casino veered across a highway and slammed into an embankment. Nineteen passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, and four more died at the hospital.

Deadly Pennsylvania bus crashes

Dec. 26, 1968: Three people died when a chartered Greyhound bus headed to Washington failed to fully negotiate a curve near Beaver Falls and drove through an opening in a guardrail and tipped over in a 10-foot ditch.

June 20, 1998: Seven people were killed when a Greyhound bound for Pittsburgh veered into a tractor-trailer parked along the highway in Decorum, about 30 miles northwest of Chambersburg. The bus was coming from New York City with 23 people aboard when it crashed into the parked truck shortly before 4:30 a.m. Police said at the time that the tractor-trailer was parked legally on a wide shoulder.

March 17, 2013: Three people were killed when the driver of a tour bus carrying the Seton Hill University women’s lacrosse team veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and hit a tree, killing the driver, head coach Kristina Quigley and her unborn son.

Oct. 9, 2013: One person died in a Greyhound crash on Interstate 80 in Union County that injured 40 others. The bus was headed to Ohio from New York City.

June 3, 2015: The driver of a tour bus and two passengers were killed in a crash with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 380 in the Poconos in Monroe County. Police at the time said two tractor-trailers collided, sending one into the path of the tour bus, which was carrying Italian tourists.