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IN THIS AERIAL PHOTO, emergency workers respond to a crash involving a passenger bus, a tractor-trailer and an SUV near Dandridge, Tenn., on Wednesday. For months, a tightknit group of seniors at a North Carolina church had been looking forward to their annual road trip. It was a tradition for members of the Young at Heart Ministry to attend the annual Fall Jubilee in Gatlinburg, Tenn., an event featuring gospel singers and speakers. But on the way back to Statesville, N.C., on Wednesday, the bus carrying the church group blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractortrailer in a wreck that killed eight people. Fourteen other people were hurt in the accident in northeastern Tennessee.
IN THIS AERIAL PHOTO, emergency workers respond to a crash involving a passenger bus, a tractor-trailer and an SUV near Dandridge, Tenn., on Wednesday. For months, a tightknit group of seniors at a North Carolina church had been looking forward to their annual road trip. It was a tradition for members of the Young at Heart Ministry to attend the annual Fall Jubilee in Gatlinburg, Tenn., an event featuring gospel singers and speakers. But on the way back to Statesville, N.C., on Wednesday, the bus carrying the church group blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractortrailer in a wreck that killed eight people. Fourteen other people were hurt in the accident in northeastern Tennessee.

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