On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
John along with his brother James and sister Anna Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
John along with his brother James and sister Anna Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning.
On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
John along with his brother James and sister Anna Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
John along with his brother James and sister Anna Goble were one of three families who lost all of their children that tragic morning.
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