A resolution remembering and honoring the victims of the bus crash near Carrollton, Kentucky, fifteen years ago on May 14, 1988.

        [Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 143 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

108th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 143

Remembering and honoring the victims of the bus crash near Carrollton,
Kentucky, fifteen years ago on May 14, 1988.

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 14, 2003

Mr. Lautenberg (for himself and Mr. DeWine) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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RESOLUTION

Remembering and honoring the victims of the bus crash near Carrollton,
Kentucky, fifteen years ago on May 14, 1988.

Whereas a school bus full of children, teens and chaperones was traveling down
Interstate 71 to Radcliff, Kentucky, following a church outing at a
Cincinnati, Ohio amusement park;
Whereas a drunk driver, with blood alcohol concentration levels at .24 percent,
much higher than the legal limit, was traveling northbound in the
southbound lanes of Interstate 71 in his pickup truck;
Whereas the National Transportation Safety Board found the drunk driver slammed
into the bus head on, causing a collision sequence which resulted in the
bus bursting into flames;
Whereas, 24 children and three adults perished in this tragedy;
Whereas, thirty-four other people suffered injuries, some critical, in the crash
and resulting fire;
Whereas, the pickup driver was found to be a repeat drunk-driving offender and
substantially over the legal blood alcohol concentration limit to
operate a vehicle;
Whereas the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that
alcohol-related traffic deaths have increased for the third consecutive
year in a row; and
Whereas the strength and determination of the survivors and of the relatives of
the victims to this crash serve as an inspiration for all Americans:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That that on this day, May 14, 2003, the Unites States
Senate remembers and honors the victims and their families on this 15th
anniversary of the deadliest drunk driving crash in United States
history.
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