Date: August 14, 2009
Location: Northeast Indiana
Type: Bus vs. car accident
Outcome: Several people injured, one person hospitalized, two people killed
A popular Christian band called MercyMe canceled a show from their summer tour in St. Louis after their tour bus collided with a vehicle in northeastern Indiana, leaving two passengers dead, including the pregnant driver’s unborn baby.
None of the band members was seriously injured and only suffered “minor bumps and bruises”. A news story on the bus crash and a photo of the damaged front end of the bus were put up on the band’s Web site last Saturday.
According to a police officer from Fort Wayne, Indiana, witnesses reported that the bus had been going through a green light at 1:15 a.m. when the car made a left-hand turn in front of it. The Dallas-based band had been in the midwest for a concert on August 14.
Unfortunately, two passengers in the car, a male and a female, were pronounced dead. The driver, Kara Klinker, 18 of Fort Wayne, was in the third trimester of her pregnancy and lost her baby. Klinker was hospitalized in critical condition. The names of the other victims had not yet been released pending notification of their families.
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