At 13, he survived Ky. s deadly Carrollton bus crash. Now he s a school superintendent. Valarie Honeycutt Spears, Lexington Herald-Leader
Jul. 2 Jason Booher worked his first day as a Kentucky school superintendent July 1, his career as an educator, he said, motivated by his teachers after he survived the fiery 1988 Carrollton church bus crash at the age of 13.
A drunk pickup truck driver heading the wrong way hit the bus, filled with Hardin County youth church group members returning from Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati. Twenty-seven people died in what was described at the time as the deadliest drunken driving incident in both Kentucky and the United States.