On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
Paulette, along with her sister Sandra, died together on this tragic morning. Her body was found on May 10 under the Cliff Bridge app 3 miles from the bus crash site on Feb 28.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
Paulette, along with her sister Sandra, died together on this tragic morning. Her body was found on May 10 under the Cliff Bridge app 3 miles from the bus crash site on Feb 28.
On February 28, 1958 at 8:10 a.m. a school bus loaded with 48 elementary and high school students was headed to Prestonsburg Kentucky on old Route 23.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
Paulette, along with her sister Sandra, died together on this tragic morning. Her body was found on May 10 under the Cliff Bridge app 3 miles from the bus crash site on Feb 28.
For reasons still uncertain to this day, the driver did not see a tow truck in front of him that was getting ready to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, until it was too late. He crashed into it, crossed the road, sideswiped a parked car and rolled down an embankment into the swollen and cold Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.
27 people, including the driver, died and 22 others survived.
Paulette, along with her sister Sandra, died together on this tragic morning. Her body was found on May 10 under the Cliff Bridge app 3 miles from the bus crash site on Feb 28.
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