Bus overturns in Delaware, killing 1

BEAR, Del. - A bus carrying dozens of people crashed and overturned in Delaware, leaving one woman dead and several other people injured, authorities said.

Officials said the accident did not involve other vehicles and happened around 4:20 p.m. Sunday in the community of Bear in the northern part of the state.

Forty-nine people were taken to hospitals, said Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack. Of those, three to five people were in critical condition, Shavack said.

Photographs taken at the scene showed the bus lying on the driver's side on a grassy shoulder of a roadway. The photographs showed at least two people with neck braces lying in the grass while a group of others were sitting on the grass.

Emergency officials bent over some of the injured and placed victims on stretchers as ambulances and other emergency vehicles stood by.

New Castle County Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Michael McColley said the crash occurred at Red Lion Road at Route 1 in Bear. It was not immediately clear where the bus was headed or where it began it sjourney.

Authorities had no immediate information on the cause of the crash.