A school bus that had been converted into a camper rolled off a mountainous Colorado road on Tuesday night, leaving two dead and one young child fighting for her life, police shared.
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the rollover crash happened at around 8:30 p.m.
Colorado State Patrol Master Trooper Gary Cutler told NBC News that inside the bus were two adults and three children, none of whom were wearing seatbelts, as it went tumbling down a 400-foot cliff in Larimer County, Colorado.
The driver was a 47-year-old man from Greeley, and the passenger was a 34-year-old woman from Loveland, both of whom lost their lives in the accident, police shared.
A 1-year-old girl sustained life-threatening injuries and was flown to a nearby children’s hospital. The other children in the bus, two boys ages 3 and 7, were taken by ambulance to a hospital, Cutler shared.
Cutler said that it isn’t known if the passengers were a family, but that they were traveling in a converted Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus. He added that converted school buses are common in the region.
“They’re cheap [inexpensive] to get when school districts sell them, and then they [the buyer] gets the time to go through it and put what they want in them,” Cutler said.
He shared that while they are sometimes basic, with “beds, storage areas, and some kind of refrigerator,” they can be more elaborate with toilets.
An investigation into the crash remains ongoing, but it is believed to be an accident, not intentional, Cutler said.
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