History Channel - Disasters Of The Century The Wrong Choice

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Date: Jan. 29, 2010

The Eastman Bus Tragedy: One of the most horrific bus accidents in North America happened at Lac D'Argent, Quebec, in 1978. On the summer evening of August 4th, a charter bus carrying a group of disabled people and volunteers sank to the bottom of Lac D'Argent by the small Quebec town of Eastman. The hydraulic brakes failed on a steep slope leading down to the water. Driver Denis Martel drove the out-of-control vehicle into the lake, hoping that the water would slow it down. Instead, the bus planed out nearly 300 feet into the middle of the lake before slowly sinking to the bottom. Seven people, including the driver and a local priest, escaped. None of the handicapped passengers survived.
When the salvage crew finally pulled the bus from the depths, they found that most of the victims had never left their seats. The New London School Fire: On March 3, 1937, the New London, Texas, Consolidated School was destroyed by a gas explosion resulting from damage to a heating gas line. 730 people were in the school building at the time. Despite the fact that the school district was one of the wealthiest in the United States, the school had illicitly tapped into a wet gas line from a drilling site to save the costs of heating.

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