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Now, to mark the 25th anniversary, one of the survivors, partnered with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), has put together Impact: After The Crash – a powerful, gritty documentary on...
May 14, 2013 · Impact After the Crash: Directed by Jason Epperson. With Gene Waggoner, Karolyn Nunnallee, Dotty Pearman Williams, Christy Pearman Cox. Documentary exploring the horrific Carrollton, Kentucky bus crash, which killed 27 people, mostly children, and injured many others.
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- Documentary, Drama, Family
- Jason Epperson
- 2013-05-14
- 'I Hate Mother's Day'
- 'It Was My Skin'
- 'I'm Not Driving A Bus!'
- 'One of The Lucky Ones'
- 'Knives Sticking Me'
- Finding Larry Mahoney
The anniversary of the crash falls around Mother's Day, a bitter reminder for those whose loved ones were among the 24 children and three adults who died one week after Mother's Day in 1988. Karolyn Nunnallee, whose daughter Patty, 10, was the youngest to die, said Mother's Day is painful for her and other families affected by the crash. "I hate Mo...
On a sunny afternoon in early May, Ciaran Madden sits on a granite bench in a Hardin County cemetery contemplating two glossy black monuments. One bears the names of those who died in the crash. The other is a monument with her own name on it, then Ciaran Foran, her maiden name, listed as one of 40 survivors. "There was a big old fireball," said Ma...
Eight years ago, Quinton Higgins Jr. was looking for work after he was laid off from a civilian job at Fort Knox. A friend told him the Hardin County School Public school system was hiring bus drivers. Higgins said his reaction was emphatic, even though he thought he had put memories of the crash behind him. "I said, 'I'm not driving a bus!' " Higg...
A coach, teacher and now an assistant principal and athletic director at Pikeville Independent Schools, Jason Booher said the crash has shaped his career, giving him a platform to speak publicly, primarily to young audiences. "I've never tasted alcohol or experimented with a drug in my life, and I've had as much fun in life as anybody," said Booher...
Harold Dennis, one of the most severely injured survivors, recalls being pulled from the bus and placed on the ground. He'd suffered third-degree burns on his back and shoulders. "One of the things I do vividly remember is the blades of grass in the median felt like knives sticking me in the back," Dennis said. He also suffered severe, disfiguring ...
Still frustrated that Mahoney had cut off contact with her, Ciaran Madden said she made one more attempt to reach him last year at his home in Owen County. The occasion was a talk Higgins was giving at a nearby school, taking his bus. Madden drove up separately with a friend, Tammy Darnell, also a crash survivor. Afterward, they figured out where M...
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After first responders treated and transported survivors and extinguished the fire, a crane was used to load the bus onto a flatbed truck that transported the bus and those persons killed to the National Guard Armory in Carrollton.
Impact: After The Crash delivers that powerful message by following the lives of several survivors and kin who suffered deeply from the incident but found the will to begin their lives anew.
IMPACT: AFTER THE CRASH delivers that powerful message by following the lives of several survivors and kin who suffered deeply from the incident but found the will to begin their lives anew. The film tells a moving, universal story about the precariousness of life and the power of hope.
May 19, 2023 · Javier Methol. Luciana Paoloni/Getty. Javier Methol was the oldest survivor from the crash of Flight 571: He was 36 years old at the time and was one of the rugby team's coaches. Also on board was his wife, Liliana, who was killed in an avalanche that claimed the lives of seven other people as well. At the time of the crash, he and Liliana had ...
