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Aug 11, 2008 5:13 pm US/Central

Family Member Details Confusion On Day Bus Crashed

Reporting
Bud Gillett
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― The hearts of Roman Catholics across Texas are going out to a busload of Vietnamese pilgrims whose coach overturned in Sherman early Friday. Seventeen people were killed and another 21 remain hospitalized.

The criminal investigation is now centered at Sherman Police Headquarters. Police say it could be weeks before they decide whether to send up possible criminal charges to the district attorney.

Besides the investigation, little reunions are taking place at the location. Victims' belongings are being returned to worried families.

Son Vu recently retrieved his mother's personal items, carefully catalogued and preserved by police. His family has experienced the emotional roller coaster of mismatched information during mass casualty incidents.

"They announce my mom pass away twice," said Vu. Hoa Thi Pham, Vu's mother, was not found among the dead or among the victims in area hospitals. He e-mailed her picture to area hospitals' Web sites.

"I think about an hour is all I miss," said Vu. "One officer confirmed. They say my mom at Baylor."

Pham had not attended the Marian Days religious event in years, but a friend who had recently moved to the area from California urged her to go. Now both are hospitalized.

Vu listed her injuries as "a broken rib, damaged lungs and the hand."

Some pilgrims who attended Marian Days have come back to a makeshift memorial at the crash site. Programs from the events were placed along side flower displays.

Others are at the scene, too. Private accident investigators took measurements for an attorney they won't identify.

Both of Texas' U.S. senators are urging congress to take up the issue of motor coach safety when it comes back in September, specifically addressing passenger ejection in rollovers, fireproofing and crush-resistant roofs.

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison wants congress to pass a motor coach safety bill next month. Hutchison says the proposal would upgrade federal safety standards regarding motor coaches. Operators would be required to go through more training before they can drive buses.

A federal hearing on bus safety is scheduled for September 18.

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