PORT BARRE, La., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The mayor of a Louisiana town said he knew the school bus he was driving was about to be rear-ended by a semi-truck just moments before impact.
Two Port Barre, La., students were critically injured in the Friday crash, which was being investigated Saturday, KCAT-TV, Lafayette, La., reported.
Mayor Gil Savoy was one of about 100 people who took part in a vigil Friday night in Port Barre in the hours after the crash.
"I looked in my mirror and I said, 'Oh my God brace yourselves, we're going to get rear-ended,'" Savoy told KACT. "Then about 2 seconds later he just plowed into the back of the bus".
KACT said people at the vigil offered their moral support for Savoy and said a rosary for the injured kids; Colby Richard, 15, and 5-year-old Karen Stoute.
Louisiana State Police officers said earlier that the St. Landry Parish school bus had been stopped with its lights flashing. Witnesses said they saw what appeared to be debris falling from the tractor trailer moments before it struck the bus. UPI
