Bus ‘driven’ off road, killing 14

POLICE in the US have been investigating a bus driver’s claim that he was driven off a major highway before his bus slid into a sign pole that sheared it end to end, killing 14 people and leaving others maimed in a scene of blood, jumbled bodies and shattered glass.

The driver, Ophadell Williams, told police that a tractor-trailer clipped his World Wide Tours bus just as it crossed the city line on a trip from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut but state police said witnesses told them Williams was speeding before yesterday’s crash on Interstate 95.