Devastating news out of Marion County. Please keep Central Florida’s farmworker community in your prayers. This is such a terrible and heartbreaking loss. pic.twitter.com/eS9itLdg30
— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) May 14, 2024
美國佛羅裏達州（Florida）5月14日發生嚴重車禍，一輛載有工人的巴士與一輛貨車相撞後，
衝出路旁翻側，造成至少8人死亡、45人受傷，傷者中8人嚴重。
事發於奧蘭多市（Orlando）以北的馬裏昂縣（Marion County），上午6時30分，載有工人的巴士在開往農場途中出事。當時巴士上共有53人，大部份為外地移民工，負責到農場摘瓜。當地救援隊表示，除有8人傷重，另有37人輕傷送院。
據指出，工人受僱於一家私人公司，該公司老板也是傷者之一。
媒體一度報道意外涉及學童，當局後來澄清說，事後當局動用一輛校巴來將傷者從送到醫院。
#BREAKING: A Mass casualty incident has been declared after numerous people were killed on a migrant bus crash incident with over three dozen injured
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 14, 2024
#MarionCounty | #Flordia
Currently, numerous law enforcement and other emergency crews are on the scene of a mass casualty… pic.twitter.com/7omhzpazVf
UPDATE:
— FlashFeed (@FlashFeed365) May 14, 2024
The crash happened when a 2001 Ford pickup truck side-swiped the bus carrying farm workers in Marion County Florida.
The bus then went off the road, crashed into a fence, and overturned in a field.
8 people were killed and up to 50 injured, several in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/XCxKbStw1D