A violent head-on crash along Interstate 81 in Luzerne County killed two people and injured three others..
Tabitha Roberts, 17, and her grandmother, Jean Acres from Denver Colorado were killed. The three hurt are their family members. They are Tabitha's mother, father and another one of their daughters.
A bus and sport utility vehicle collided in the southbound lanes near the Pittston/Dupont interchange. The bus driver was the only one on the bus. He was not hurt.
The crash had traffic in both directions stopped for hours. It happened about 1:45 p.m. The interstate quickly became a parking lot.
The bus headed north went out of control, crossed a grassy median and hit the southbound SUV carrying five people head-on.
Trucker Tim Chapman of Indianapolis saw the whole thing happen. The bus went out of control right in front of him.
"I grabbed a couple of gears and made a real quick stop. I was making sure nobody else got involved. That's all I worried about," he said.
State police questioned the bus driver but said it's too early to speculate what happened.
"The size of this bus, it would take a long time for it to stop, even after impact. It would take a long time to stop," said Trooper Martin Connors of PSP Wyoming.
The crash blocked traffic in both directions at one point, as much as six miles in either direction.
Late in the afternoon state police, along with a towing company, tried to tow the bus away but something snapped. The bus rolled away and workers had to run after it to catch up with it.