当局 改訂する death (死傷者)数 in fiery 衝突,墜落 to 4 killed

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ― Florida 主要道路 Patrol 公式の/役人s on Sunday 改訂するd the number people killed when a bus carrying Haitian farmworkers and a tractor-trailer 衝突する/食い違うd in the Panhandle, putting the 最新の death (死傷者)数 at four.

当局 拒絶する/低下するd to comment on the error and had 以前 報告(する)/憶測d that five people were killed in Saturday's 衝突,墜落. Two of the 死んだ have still not been identified.

A Florida 牧師 said Sunday he is working with 当局 to help identify the four killed and the 25 負傷させるd in the 衝突,墜落. The farmworkers do not speak English, making the 過程 even more difficult.

The Rev. Frantz Gaudard of Belle Glade said the bus driver and several 乗客s were members of the First Haitian Community Church. He said the bus had come from Georgia, where the farmworkers were 雇うd.

当局 said the bus was carrying 概略で 34 adults and children when it ran a flashing red light and a stop 調印する before hitting the tractor-trailer Saturday. Both 乗り物s caught 解雇する/砲火/射撃.

Guadard, the church's 牧師, said several people are in 集中的な care.

"Some of them are in and out of conscious so it's very difficult to identify them. Most of their 文書s were 燃やすd in the 衝突,墜落 同様に," he said.

It's 不明瞭な who owned the bus or who 雇うd the farmworkers.

"権利 now we're trying to 人物/姿/数字 out who's 行方不明になる ing from the community, who they 港/避難所't heard from," Guadard told The Associated 圧力(をかける) in a phone interview.

Guadard said he spoke 簡潔に by phone with the bus driver, 56-year-old Elie Dupiche, who was 入院させるd in 批判的な 条件. Dupiche has also driven buses for the church and is a very qualified driver, a "wonderful guy, very 静かな guy and willing to serve," the 牧師 said.

Wakulla 郡 郡保安官 Charlie Creel 述べるd the 衝突,墜落 as one of the worst he'd ever seen. He said the bus, a retired school bus model built in 1979, 攻撃する,衝突する just behind the driver's door of the tractor-trailer on first 衝撃 and then spun around and 攻撃する,衝突する it again as the 乗り物s went off the road and (機の)カム to 残り/休憩(する) under a 力/強力にする line.

Both 乗り物s burst into 炎上s and 副s jumped の上に the bus to 救助(する) 犠牲者s, many who were unable to move.

"If these 副s had not done that, we would have had a lot more fatalities," the 郡保安官 said, 追加するing they were 結局 "driven 支援する" by the 炎上s that then fully (海,煙などが)飲み込むd the tractor-trailer.

当局 said the bus was 長,率いるd south on a north-south 明言する/公表する road when it 衝突する/食い違うd with the tractor-trailer, which was westbound on U.S. 98 ― a Florida 沿岸の 主要道路.

The driver of the tractor-trailer, Gordon Sheets, 55 of Copiague, New York, was killed. His 乗客, 21-year-old Rafael Nieves of Sound Beach, New York, was not 負傷させるd, によれば the Florida 主要道路 Patrol. The 郡保安官 said a young child was also の中で those killed on the bus.

Guadard said the farmworkers had just finished working in Georgia and were 長,率いるing home to 残り/休憩(する) for a few weeks before 長,率いるing to New England for apple and berry season.

"It's a 悲劇 that this hap pened," he said.

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