A bus driver most who was seriously injured in Saturday's six-bus pileup on I-20 east of Atlanta is improving.
AM750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB reported that 44-year-old Angela Anthony, who had to be cut from the wreckage before being airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital, was in good condition early Monday.
The Midville woman's family told Channel 2 Action News that she is improving and could go home soon.
About 50 other people, many of them students, suffered mostly minor injuries when the six school buses traveling to Six Flags were involved in an accident on I-20 in Newton County, authorities said.
Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said 50 other people were checked at area hospitals after complaining of injuries. Two more people were transported for visible injuries.
The students on the buses were from Burke County Middle School in Waynesboro, Wright said. They were headed to Six Flags, just west of Atlanta. Burke County borders the South Carolina state line.
The accident, which occurred just after noon near a construction zone, was south of Social Circle and east of Covington.
“At mile marker 98, just west of the Georgia Highway 11 exit, traffic began slowing for a lane closure about a half-mile ahead,” Wright said. “As the buses slowed, one bus struck the rear of another, setting off a chain-reaction crash. The passenger car was the last vehicle in the line and struck the rear of the sixth bus.”
Amy Nunnally, a spokeswoman for the Burke County school system, said no children were seriously injured. "Just a few bruises, scrapes," Nunnally told The Associated Press. "Nothing bad happened to any of our children."
Emergency personnel from Newton and Morgan counties, the State Patrol and the cities of Covington and Social Circle responded, according to Newton sheriff's spokesman Lt. Tyrone Oliver.
Morgan County sent several buses to the scene to help transport uninjured children.
The State Patrol said Monday that charges will be pending the completion of the follow-up investigation by the Patrol's Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team.
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