A 9-year-old girl who was killed in a bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike was a Dayton Public Schools student.
According to a spokesperson, 9-year-old Jaremy Vazquez attended Ruskin Elementary School in Dayton.
Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli issued the following statement:
"The Dayton Public School District and members of the Ruskin Elementary school family, where Jaremy Vazquez attended, are deeply saddened at the news of her passing. Jaremy was a fourth-grade student. Grief counselors were at Ruskin Elementary on Monday and Tuesday for students and staff."
Federal investigators said the packed bus passed a truck shortly before losing control and causing a chain-reaction wreck that killed five and injured dozens.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the motor coach began its trip at 10 p.m. Saturday in Queens, New York, then stopped in Manhattan and Hackensack, New Jersey.
She said driver Shuang Qing Feng, 58, was about 10 miles from being subbed out by the next driver when his bus passed a FedEx truck.
Feng lost control and the bus hit a concrete median barrier, went up an embankment and ended up blocking the westbound turnpike travel lanes, she said. The FedEx truck could not stop and hit the bus, after which a UPS truck also struck it.
The bus carrying 56 passengers was headed to Cincinnati and then Louisville before it would have returned to Queens.
Feng was thrown from the bus and died at the scene on Interstate 76 in a mountainous and rural area about 30 miles west of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Eileen Aria, who graduated from Ohio State’s College of Dentistry in 2017, was also killed in the crash.
Two UPS employees were killed, Daniel Kepner, 53, and Dennis Kehler, 48.
