Historical eventOctober 251995

1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision

A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

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When
Wednesday, October 25 199531 years ago
Category
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Era
20th century · 1990s
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At a glance

Dates: From 1995-10-25.

Place: Fox River Grove, United States.

Type: railway accident.

Deaths reported: 7.

Timeline

Timeline General diagram of the scene. The train approached from the west, while the bus was stopped on the north side of the tracks All times are approximate, given in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report as the best approximation of when the events occurred as a result of their investigation. All times are given in Central Daylight Time. 6:15 am: Bus scheduled to leave bus garage. 6:30 am: Substitute bus driver arrives to perform pretrip inspection.

What happened

Casualties The following people lost their lives in the disaster: Jeffrey J. Clark (16) Stephanie L. Fulham (15) Susanna Guzman (18) Michael B. Hoffman (14) Joseph A. Kalte (16) Shawn P. Robinson (14) Tiffany L. Schneider (15) Of the seven fatalities, five of the victims were buried in separate graves at Windridge Memorial Park and Nature Sanctuary in Cary, Illinois , one victim was interred at Memory Gardens Cemetery and one victim was interred at Shalom Memorial Park;

The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision was a grade crossing collision that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, on the morning of October 25, 1995. The school bus, driven by a substitute driver, who was also the trainer of bus drivers in the district, was stopped at a traffic light with the rearmost portion extending onto a portion of the railroad tracks when it was struck by a Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line train, train 624 en route to Chicago.

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