7 dead, 37 injured after bus runs off road, overturns in Mississippi

Seven people were killed and 37 others were injured after a bus ran off a road and overturned in Mississippi.

Six people were pronounced dead at the scene and one person died at Merit Heath Hospital in Vicksburg, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. The co-driver was not transported to a hospital.

The 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus was driving westbound on Interstate 20 when it drove off the road Saturday just before 1 a.m. local time.

Among those killed in the crash on westbound Interstate 20 were a 6-year-old and a 16-year-old, Warren County coroner Doug Huskey confirmed.

Four men and three women died in the crash, Huskey told ABC affiliate WAPT in Jackson, Mississippi,

The crash is being investigated by the MHP and the Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division.