5 dead, 25 injured in ghastly Florida crash

 

Pandemonium struck at a highway intersection in the Florida Panhandle when an old bus carrying farmworkers was involved in a head-on collision tractor-trailer with vehicles bursting into flames killing five people and injuring 25 others in the process.

Authorities say the Blue Bird bus from Georgia was carrying roughly 34 adults and children when it ran a flashing red light and a stop sign before hitting the tractor trailer, then spun around and hit the semi again.

“This is a very horrendous crash, I can tell you,” Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel said, calling it one of the worst in several decades in law enforcement.