Bus carrying bagpipers from St. Patrick’s Day parade crashes into truck in Pennsylvania

The Brief

  • Nearly 20 people were taken to hospitals after their charter bus carrying a group of bagpipers from a St. Patrick’s Day parade crashed into a tractor-trailer.
  • No one was inside the truck.
  • The band’s business manager says they’ve cancelled all group events on Monday.

MOUNT COBB, Pa. Bagpipers returning from a St. Patrick’s Day parade were taken to hospitals after their charter bus crashed into a tractor-trailer, officials said.

What we know:

The bus was exiting westbound Interstate 84 in northeastern Pennsylvania shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday when it ran into the tractor-trailer, which had no one inside it, Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mike Shaffer said, according to WBRE-TV/WYOU-TV.

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