Several people died Wednesday when a bus and tractor-trailer crashed 40 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee, just past the I-40/ I-81 highway split<br/> <br />According to local media, the bus may have crossed the median before the two vehicles crashed. The bus flipped over and the tractor-trailer caught on fire, resulting in multiple injuries.<br/> <br />Emergency officials closed both directions of Interstate 40 and took victims to local hospitals.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) BRAD PHILLIPS, DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND EMS FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We transported twelve victims to the area hospitals by ground and by air and we do have confirmed fatalities at the scene."<br/> <br />The bus was reportedly carrying members of the Front Street Baptist Church who were returning from a Fall Jubilee.
