Bus collision near
Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on
Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from
Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in
Prestonburg, Kentucky on February 28, 1958.