Mesquite ISD student killed in fiery school bus crash in north Texas

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Student killed in fiery school bus crash near Dallas
A charred Mesquite ISD school bus is all that remains from a fiery crash that killed one student.

MESQUITE, Texas (KTRK) -- One student is dead and a second is in the hospital after a fiery crash involving a Mesquite ISD school bus.

The district says the bus carrying 39 Terry Middle School students crashed on Wednesday afternoon.

Two students were transported to the hospital, but one child didn't make it.

The condition of the second student was not immediately known.

Thirty-seven other students were not injured, and are being reunited with their parents at the school.

Mesquite is located about 14 miles east of Dallas.