MEXICAN HAT, Utah — A charter bus ran off a wet road and fell 41 feet down an embankment in far southeastern Utah, killing eight passengers and injuring about 20 others, authorities said Monday.
The Arrow Stage Lines bus was southbound on State Route 163 when it failed to negotiate a curve, went off the road and rolled over several times at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, said Trooper Cameron Roden of the Utah Highway Patrol.
"When the vehicle was overturning, the roof of the bus split open and multiple occupants of the vehicle were ejected," he said.
The driver suffered minor injuries, he said.
A woman who answered the phone at Arrow Stage Lines headquarters in Omaha, Neb., early Monday said no one would be available to answer questions until later in the morning.
Roden said the bus was en route from Telluride, Colo., to Phoenix after a ski trip.
A manifest showed 51 passengers were on board the bus when it crashed about 10 miles north of Mexican Hat, in the Four Corners region where Utah meets Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. Rescue crews from all four states were sent to help.
The region's isolation and the winter weather slowed aid efforts Sunday. A helicopter from Colorado could not take off because of winter storms. Cell phone service was not available in the area, Roden said.
A bus went to the crash site to transport passengers who weren't badly injured.
The cause of the crash was unclear. Investigators at the scene said the road was wet from light rain.
In Mapleton, Maine, a school bus lost control at a sharp turn, clipped a utility poll and landed on its side, sending eight people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries Monday morning, police said.
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