Devastating news out of Marion County. Please keep Central Florida’s farmworker community in your prayers. This is such a terrible and heartbreaking loss. pic.twitter.com/eS9itLdg30
— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) May 14, 2024
美国佛罗里达州（Florida）5月14日发生严重车祸，一辆载有工人的巴士与一辆货车相撞后，
冲出路旁翻侧，造成至少8人死亡、45人受伤，伤者中8人严重。
事发于奥兰多市（Orlando）以北的马里昂县（Marion County），上午6时30分，载有工人的巴士在开往农场途中出事。当时巴士上共有53人，大部份为外地移民工，负责到农场摘瓜。当地救援队表示，除有8人伤重，另有37人轻伤送院。
据指出，工人受僱于一家私人公司，该公司老板也是伤者之一。
媒体一度报道意外涉及学童，当局后来澄清说，事后当局动用一辆校巴来将伤者从送到医院。
#BREAKING: A Mass casualty incident has been declared after numerous people were killed on a migrant bus crash incident with over three dozen injured
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 14, 2024
#MarionCounty | #Flordia
Currently, numerous law enforcement and other emergency crews are on the scene of a mass casualty… pic.twitter.com/7omhzpazVf
UPDATE:
— FlashFeed (@FlashFeed365) May 14, 2024
The crash happened when a 2001 Ford pickup truck side-swiped the bus carrying farm workers in Marion County Florida.
The bus then went off the road, crashed into a fence, and overturned in a field.
8 people were killed and up to 50 injured, several in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/XCxKbStw1D