Site of Bluffton University Bus Crash (Atlanta, Georgia)

 crash site, historical layer / disappeared object

 Upload a photo

At about 5:30AM on March 2, 2007, the charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team to spring training in Florida ran off the Northside Drive overpass in Atlanta, Georgia. Four members of the baseball team were killed, along with the bus driver and his wife. As of March 5, 2007, three people remained hospitalized, including the coach. It appears that the bus driver mistook the Northside Drive exit on the left side of the HOV lane for the lane itself. Evidence indicates that the bus reached the top of the exit ramp at highway speed and attempted to turn right onto Northside Drive at the last minute. The bus struck the bridge wall, spun around, then fell 30 feet onto the southbound lanes of I-75.