Trucker Killed In East Texas Wreck With School Bus

LUFKIN (AP) – Investigators say a truck driver has been killed in a three-vehicle wreck involving an East Texas school bus. Officials with the Lufkin Independent School District say the bus driver and her own three children were in that vehicle when the accident happened Monday afternoon on U.S. 59. District spokeswoman Sheila Adams says all four people on the bus were transported to a hospital to be checked out, as a precaution. The driver of the 18-wheeler, Barry Harper, 57, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was killed in the crash. He would have been 58 tomorrow. Another truck was also involved in the accident. Details were not immediately released on whether the driver in the second truck required medical attention. The Texas Department of Public Safety says hazardous materials crews cleaned up a flammable liquid that spilled from one of the rigs.