HOUSTON — A chartered bus coming from Mexico veered off a highway early Wednesday and overturned, killing one passenger and injuring dozens of others, at least six of them critically, authorities said.
Some of the passengers crawled out an emergency exit on the roof.
The bus, with 47 people aboard, had left Monterrey, Mexico, on Tuesday evening and was headed to Houston when it crashed several hours before dawn south of Victoria, about 125 miles southwest of Houston, authorities said.
“The investigation is centering on driver fatigue,” said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. “It looks like he ran off the road, way overcorrected then tipped over on the passenger side.”
The bus was operated by Capricorn Bus Lines Inc. of Houston.
In a separate accident Wednesday, a Greyhound bus collided with a tractor-trailer near Henderson, N.C., and at least 50 people were taken to hospitals, two of them in critical condition, hospital and Highway Patrol officials said.
