Deadly Bus Crash

Flowers and messages like the one scribed inside an all star baseball frame, line the fence Monday March 5, 2007, at the scene of a fatal bus wreck in Atlanta. A bus carrying the Bluffton (Ohio) University baseball team failed to stop at the end of the ramp, sending it plunging off the overpass and killing six people on board Friday, March 2. A seventh person died from his injuries Friday, March 9.

Bluffton University baseball players David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp and Tyler Williams were killed when the charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team plunged off a highway ramp in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007 and slammed on its side on the pavement. The driver of the bus and his wife were also killed. A fifth student, Zach Arend, died March 9 from his injuries.

Zachary Arend, a baseball player from Bluffton University in Ohio, died Friday morning, March 9, 2007 a week after he was injured in a bus crash that killed six other people, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Alonzo Williams, center, reacts after speaking about Tyler Williams, during a funeral service Thursday, March 8, 2007, at the Philippian Missionary Baptist Church in Lima, Ohio. Tyler Williams, a Bluffton University baseball player, was one of seven killed, five players and two others, when their bus plunged off an overpass in Atlanta, injuring the coach and other teammates.

A baseball and glove are displayed, surrounded by flowers, as part of an on-campus memorial at Bluffton University, honoring those involved in the March 2 crash in Atlanta of a charter bus carrying members of the university's baseball team, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, at the school in Bluffton, Ohio.

Rescue workers inspect the wreckage of a charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio after it plunged off a highway ramp in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007, and slammed into the I-75 pavement 30 feet below. Four students and the husband-and-wife drivers were killed. A fifth student died March 9 from his injuries.

Wreckers upright a charter bus that plunged off a ramp and fell onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007. The charter bus was carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio to its annual spring training trip in Florida when the motor coach apparently mistakenly exited a high-occupancy vehicle lane about 5:30 a.m.

A charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio is seen after it plunged off a highway ramp in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007, and slammed into the I-75 pavement below killing four students, the bus driver and his wife. A fifth student died March 9 from his injuries.

Atlanta police inspect parts of a charter bus on the ramp where it crashed and fell onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007. The charter bus was carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from northwest Ohio. Investigators said the driver apparently mistook the exit ramp for a lane and went into the curve at full speed. It was dark at the time, but the weather was clear.

Firefighters had to pull out victims through the roof after a bus carrying a college baseball team plunged off a Georgia interstate ramp Friday, March 2, 2007, and crashed onto a pickup truck. Six people were killed and 29 injured. The bus was carrying students from Ohio's Bluffton University, a Mennonite-affiliated school south of Toledo, to a tournament in Florida. A seventh person succumbed to his injuries March 9.

Danny Lloyd, 57, of Frostburg, Md., was driving to Florida on Interstate 75 early March 2, 2007, in Atlanta when a charter bus plunged off a highway ramp and landed on his pickup truck. The impact broke his windshield, pushed his truck into the concrete and wrecked the front bumper. He was not injured. "I think when I saw the thing coming, I think I closed my eyes and stepped on the gas," he said.

A charter bus carrying the Ohio's Bluffton University baseball team is seen after it plunged off a highway ramp in Atlanta early Friday, March 2, 2007. Four students, the bus driver and his wife died. A fifth student died March 9. Twenty-eight players and their coach were taken to a hospital.

Bluffton University President James Harder speaks to the media Friday, March 2, 2007, in Bluffton, Ohio. A charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team plunged off a highway ramp Friday and slammed into the pavement below, killing six people and scattering sports equipment across the road, authorities said. A seventh person succumbed to his injuries March 9.

Bluffton University students, from left, Jean Boen, Megan Barker and Kari Day listen during a press conference in Bluffton, Ohio, March 2, 2007. Thirty-five people were on the bus when it plunged off a highway ramp in Atlanta, slamming into the pavement below early Friday.

Bluffton University student Sarah Ricks, 21, prays on campus after hearing about the bus crash near Atlanta that claimed the lives of four members of the school's baseball team, Friday, March 2, 2007, on the campus of the university in Bluffton, Ohio. A fifth player died March 9 from his injuries.

Community members gather for a candlelight vigil, Friday night, March 2, 2007, on the campus of Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio. A bus crash near Atlanta claimed the lives of at least four members of the school's baseball team, in addition to the bus driver and his wife. A fifth player died March 9 from his injuries.