JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal safety official says the Texas tour bus hit by a freight train in a deadly crash earlier this week wasn't supposed to have taken the road where it got stuck at a rail crossing.
National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the driver may have followed a GPS set for commercial vehicle use rather than directions from the tour company. That's according to, WLOX-TV.
Speaking at a news conference, Sumwalt also said two other buses apparently followed the route provided by Florida-based Diamond Tours to the casino where they were headed in Biloxi, Mississippi.
In Texas, survivors and family members of the dead began filing lawsuits as more details emerged of Tuesday's crash, in which the CSX freight train slammed into the bus at a humped rail crossing on Biloxi's Main Street. Three people died in the accident.