{"id":105052,"date":"2024-04-06T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/college-student-hailed-a-hero-after-he-took-control-of-bus-after-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T18:04:06","slug":"college-student-hailed-a-hero-after-he-took-control-of-bus-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/college-student-hailed-a-hero-after-he-took-control-of-bus-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"College student hailed a hero after he took control of bus after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-06\/MississippiHighwayPatrol_040624_CharterBusCrash2.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mississippi Highway Patrol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss.) &#8212; A University of South Carolina student is being hailed a hero after he took control of a charter bus following a crash Friday in Hancock County, Mississippi, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven people onboard the bus were injured. The driver of the bus, 55-year-old Tina Wilson, and a student were airlifted from the scene in critical condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The charter bus, carrying 56 students from the University of South Carolina, was traveling west on Interstate 10 around 3 p.m. local time when it collided with a center concrete barrier, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bus is still moving, now it&#8217;s on all wheels on the ground, still moving out of control without a driver,&#8221; Bay St. Louis Police Chief Toby Schwartz said. &#8220;So heroically the second hero of the day, a young man, a student with Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Paul Clune, grabs that steering wheel and regains control of the bus until it came to a final stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bus, according to the University of South Carolina, was transporting fraternity members and guests to an event in New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts go out to the students involved in the accident and those affected by it,&#8221; the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining students at the crash site were transported to a nearby school building, where they arranged for further transportation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are not sure what caused the crash, but preliminary information suggests that a mechanical failure may have caused the incident, Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Cal Robertson said.<\/p>\n<p>This crash remains under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Highway Patrol (HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss.) &#8212; A University of South Carolina student is being hailed a hero after he took control of a charter bus following a crash Friday in Hancock County, Mississippi, according to authorities. Eleven people onboard the bus were injured. The driver of the bus, 55-year-old<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/college-student-hailed-a-hero-after-he-took-control-of-bus-after-crash\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}