{"id":107041,"date":"2024-09-03T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-killed-in-mississippi-bus-crash-identified\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:04:07","slug":"7-killed-in-mississippi-bus-crash-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-killed-in-mississippi-bus-crash-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"7 killed in Mississippi bus crash identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-02\/WAPT_BusCrash_090224.png\" alt><figcaption>WAPT via AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(VICKSBURG, Miss.) &#8212; Seven Mexican nationals killed in a Mississippi bus crash over the weekend were identified Monday, including a 16-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The names were released to ABC News by Warren County Coroner Doug L. Huskey a day after the National Transportation Safety Board announced that the preliminary investigation showed a tire failure caused the motor coach to run off the road and overturn.<\/p>\n<p>Huskey identified those killed in the crash as 8-year-old Kain Gutierrez and his 16-year-old sister, Perla Gutierrez. Another 16-year-old girl who died was identified as Angelica Palomino, according to Huskey.<\/p>\n<p>Also killed were Miguel Ariaga, 61; Elia Guzman, 63; and Victor Aviles Garcia, 32, and his 30-year-old brother, Moises Aviles Garcia, according to Huskey.<\/p>\n<p>Huskey said that due to a language barrier, Kain Gutierrez was initially identified as 6 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened early Saturday, east of Vicksburg, and left 37 other people injured, according to the highway patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus, traveling from Atlanta to Dallas, was driving westbound on Interstate 20 when it drove off the road Saturday just before 1 a.m. local time, according to the highway patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Six people were pronounced dead at the scene and one person died at Merit Heath Hospital in Vicksburg, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. The co-driver was not transported to a hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican consulate said in its statement that it has contacted a legal firm to help obtain detailed information about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAPT via AP (VICKSBURG, Miss.) &#8212; Seven Mexican nationals killed in a Mississippi bus crash over the weekend were identified Monday, including a 16-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother, authorities said. The names were released to ABC News by Warren County Coroner Doug L. Huskey a day after the National<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/7-killed-in-mississippi-bus-crash-identified\/\">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\/107041"}],"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=107041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}