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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — A bus transporting disabled adults that crashed in Ohio, killing four, came from a vocational center that had sent its clients home early due to snowy weather.
Investigators still aren't sure if the weather caused a tractor-trailer to swerve across the Interstate 70 median Thursday and collide with the bus in southwest Ohio. The bus driver and three passengers were killed.
The Ohio Highway Patrol says it plans to examine both vehicles on Friday. Authorities say the snow-covered highway was slick, but they aren't sure if the truck was operating at a safe speed.
Six others on the bus and the truck driver were injured. A hospital in Springfield has two of the injured in fair condition. Two critical patients were transferred to a Dayton hospital.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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