Charter Bus Crash in Ohio Claims Six Lives, Injures 18 High School Students

A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway Tuesday morning, leaving six people dead and 18 injured, according to first reports. Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Pioneer Trails charter bus carrying students and chaperones from the Tuscarawas Valley Local School District in eastern Ohio. The Ohio collision was the second recent fatal crash in the U.S. involving high school students on a charter bus. In September, two people were killed and several others injured when a charter bus carrying high school students to band camp veered off a New York highway. The law firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is representing a student injured in the OH crash.

Salt Mongeluzzi Bendesky is one of the most successful catastrophic injury firms in the country. The firm has represented thousands of people, adults and children alike, for injuries suffered from accidents involving commercial carriers like private bus companies and transportation companies. Salt Mongeluzzi Bendesky is well experienced in representing multiple victims who have been injured in the same accident. While based in Philadelphia, PA, the firm handles accidents across the country and just last year, secured an $81.5 million dollar settlement for the victims of Montana Amtrak Derailment. The firm has a long track record of success in mass disaster cases, including recovering over $1 billion in a South Florida condo collapse, $265 million for victims of the Philadelphia Amtrak crash, and $227 million for victims of the Philadelphia Market Street building collapse. The attorneys at Salt Mongeluzzi Bendesky are standing by to help and available for commentary as the situation develops.