Twelve Grambling State marching band members hurt in a bus crash near Fordyce plan to play through the pain Saturday Delta Classic against UAPB. The crash happened before three Friday afternoon on highway 167.
A bus driver is also recovering. Mostly bumps and bruises forcing some of the band members to take a trip to the ER. Members of Grambling State's marching band hurt in the bus crash took a sheriff department's van to Little Rock to meet up with their classmates.
126 students shaken but not seriously hurt. "What was frightening for a lot of them, because they were asleep and as a result of that the injuries are mostly from bumping into the backs of the seats," Grambling Assistant Band Director Charles Lacy said.
Lacy says the chain reaction crash happened during a traffic tie up Friday afternoon just north of Fordyce in 167
The closest hospital, Dallas County Medical Center, is where emergency teams treated 12 band members.
Saturday when Grambling State takes on UAPB Lcay says the marching band’s performance will have a special meaning. "They will be a little more pumped up there because of their friends who were hospitalized for a short time so they will be a little more pumped up. A little more excited and a little more ready to go."
Game time is Saturday at 2:30, rescheduled a couple of weeks ago from 1:30. Lacy says one or two of the band members definitely won't be performing but watching from the sidelines.
