Article by Tyler O'Neil in "PJMedia":
One person is dead and others
injured after a car crashed headlong into a charter bus carrying
Covington Catholic High School students and chaperones returning from
the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
The crash took place around 7:20 a.m. on Saturday, Campbell County police told WLWT. Witnesses told the news outlet that a southbound car entered the northbound lanes of the AA highway, striking the bus head-on.
"I
saw a car come across the median and head toward me," witness Ricky
Lynn, who was also driving north, told WLWT. "I was able to get out of
the way."
The driver was
pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses told WLWT that a priest on the
bus gave the driver of the car a final blessing.
The
passenger side of the bus was damaged in the crash, and passengers
escaped through the emergency windows. The bus was traveling in a
caravan of four, bringing about 200 people back from the March for Life.
"This morning, a bus carrying
students and chaperones home from the March for Life in Washington, DC
was involved in an accident," the Diocese of Covington said in a
statement. "EMT personnel and the Campbell County police have been at
the scene and are handling the matter. Please join us in praying for
everyone involved in this accident."
Covington
Catholic rose to national attention after media outlets rushed with a
story portraying Nick Sandmann, a student at the school, supposedly
smirking disrespectfully at a Native American man after the March for
Life in 2019. As more information came out, it became clear that
Sandmann was not the aggressor, and Sandmann and his fellow classmates
ultimately filed defamation lawsuits against media figures who had
rushed the story. CNN settled one of these lawsuits early this year.
Due
to the false story, Sandmann and his fellow classmates have been
broadly demonized by anti-Trump figures in the media and otherwise. It
remains unclear whether this crash was premeditated in any way.
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It remains unclear whether he was on one of the busses or if he was on the bus involved in the crash.
Whether
or not the driver targeted the Covington Catholic busses, the priest on
the crashed bus took the time to pray for the driver as he or she died.