As many as six people aboard a charter bus from Michigan died in a crash in Arkansas around 1 a.m. Friday, WWJ reports.
The accident happened along Interstate 40 in North Little Rock, when the bus left the roadway and collided with an overpass abutment near the U.S. Highway 167 interchange, the station reports. Several people were injured.
According to reports, more than 20 migrant workers were on the bus, WWJ reported.
WWJ reports that a Detroit company is listed on the side of the bus, Continental Charters. However, a company spokesperson Jeff Lawson said the bus was sold to a private owner last week who was interested in running charters from Michigan to the south.
“I sold the bus to him, he came in and paid me $8,000,” Lawson told WWJ’s Scott Ryan. “He told me he was going to run the bus from here to Texas and here to Florida. So he needed the bus to run people, I’m guessing, from Detroit here to down there.”
