This Day in Texas History:
Worst Bus Accident in Texas History
September 21, 1989
On this day in 1989, the worst bus accident in Texas history occurred near the communities of Mission and Alton in Hidalgo County.
At 7:30 A.M. a Dr Pepper truck hit a Mission school bus, knocking it into a caliche pit at the corner of Five-Mile Road and Bryan Road. Twenty-one children from the Alton area were drowned, and sixty were injured.
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