BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - Bluffton University in northwestern Ohio has marked the 10th anniversary of an Atlanta bus crash that killed five baseball team members, a bus driver and his wife, and injured 28 others.
The Blade in Toledo reports that about 150 people attended the memorial service on Thursday.
The team was headed to Florida for spring games when its charter bus plunged off an overpass and onto an interstate 30 feet below.
The survivors included then-22-year-old student coach Tim Berta, who suffered serious brain injuries. Berta tells WTOL-TV he misses playing catch, which he can’t do, but re-learned how to walk and drive, and now works as a substitute teacher.
The crash helped lead to seat belt requirements for certain types of buses, a change that operators had long fought.
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