AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The newest on the crash of a tour coach that injured passengers heading to the particular Masters golf tournament (all instances local):
7: twenty p. m.
The passenger injured when a charter coach crashed on the way to the Masters golfing tournament says he’ s grateful ” everybody’ s alive. ”
Doctors Hospital within Augusta released video Thursday night time of Kip Plowman describing the particular crash as he waited in the er to have broken glass removed from their hand.
Plowman stated the bus careened off the road plus spun around one and a half periods before skidding on its aspect a good distance. He said the particular bus was filling up with smoke cigarettes as he climbed through a window over his head.
Plowman said he felt badly with regard to other injured passengers as well as for Experts ticketholders stuck on Interstate twenty as it was shut down after the accident. He said: ” It’ s i9000 not the way we planned the morning. ”
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3: 20 p. meters.
A Georgia medical center says it’ s treating 9 passengers – including one within critical condition – who were hurt when a charter bus overturned along the way to the Masters golf tournament.
Doctors Hospital in Augusta said in a statement Thursday that will six of the nine passengers used there were either in good condition or even had been treated and released.
Sgt. Chris Wright from the Georgia State Patrol says eighteen passengers were riding the tour bus from Atlanta to Augusta for your first round of the Masters once the bus overturned on Interstate twenty. The driver, 61-year-old Steven F. Hoppenbrouwer, has been charged with driving under the influence.
Wright said none of the particular passengers suffered life-threatening injuries, although several had broken bones plus head injuries.
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1: 45 l. m.
A Atlanta state trooper says passengers driving a charter bus to the Experts golf tournament told investigators the driving force veered off the roadway twice prior to he swerved a third time plus caused the bus to overturn, injuring 15 people.
Sgt. Chris Wright of the Atlanta State Patrol told The Linked Press one passenger told troopers he had decided before the crash: ” I’ m not riding back again with him. I’ ll contact an Uber. ”
The bus was taking eighteen passengers from Atlanta to the competition in Augusta when it crashed Thurs morning on Interstate 20. Wright said some passengers suffered damaged bones and head injuries.
The driver, 61-year-old Steven Farrenheit. Hoppenbrouwer, has been charged with driving drunk. Wright said authorities believe he previously been using drugs, not alcohol.
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twelve: 03 p. m.
Authorities say a tour coach headed to the Masters golf competition flipped over on a Georgia interstate, injuring at least a dozen people.
The bus driver continues to be charged with DUI.
Georgia State Patrol officials state the bus carrying 18 individuals crashed on Interstate 20 about 8: 45 a. m. Thursday night. Sixty-one-year-old Steven Hoppenbrouwer is also billed with failure to maintain lane.
Authorities say Hoppenbrouwer leaped off the side of the road plus overcorrected before the bus overturned at the median.
Several individuals were taken to hospitals but the patrol states the injuries were not life-threatening.
