University Of Alabama Students Escape Bus Before Explosion

Student fraternity members from the University of Alabama evacuated a burning bus just before it exploded on Sunday.

According to WVTM 13, the members of Sigma Chi were traveling back to the campus from a formal dance in New Orleans when one of the four charter buses caught fire on I-59 near Moselle, Mississippi.

Students on the second bus reported feeling a big rumble and smelling burning rubber.

“Once we stopped it started to really start smoking and smoke just came into the bus and it started to get where you could not breathe,” Chapman Peeples, one of the bus’ passengers said in a video report.

The bus driver did not provide emergency instructions when the bus started to burn.

“They didn’t tell us what the problem was, that we were broken down, she just vanished,” Kyle Briggs, another passenger said. “And once the room filled with smoke, we were like, ‘we got to get out of here’.”

Police said that the driver ran over an item on the road that caused the explosion, NBC News reported.

Meanwhile, Briggs also claimed that even though police said that it was a man who drove the bus, he was certain that it was a woman.

Most of the students were able to pull their belongings from the burning vehicle but some weren’t able to like Peeples who lost $2000 to $3500 worth of valuables in the incident.

The students were able to escape from the bus just before it exploded and all of them were unharmed.