A damaged OGA Charters bus is hauled away after a fatal rollover on Saturday, May 14, 2016, south of the Dimmit-Webb County line on U.S. 83 North in Texas. (Laredo Texas, Nuevo Laredo Mexico out, Mandatory credit Danny Zaragoza | Laredo Morning Times.) ORG XMIT: TXLAR102
On May 14, 2016, an OGA charter bus headed to a casino in Eagle Pass rolled over. Eight people lost their lives and forty more were injured. According to initial reports, the bus belongs to the company OGA Charters from the Rio Grande Valley and it was traveling to Eagle Pass, near Laredo, when the driver lost control and rolled the bus over on Highway 83. In our initial research in data kept by the U.S. Department of Transportation, OGA Charters haas history of safety violations and failed inspections pertaining to their drivers.
Local authorities said that seven people were killed instantly in the wreck and another one died in the emergency room while he was being treated. The people who were injured in this bus wreck were taken to hospitals in Laredo and Carrizo Springs. The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but the trooper that arrived at the scene of the accident said that it was raining during the time in which the wreck occurred.
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