Photo: #A worker helped guide a badly damaged tour bus onto the road as wreckers cleaned up after a fatal bus roll-over near Austin, Minn., on Wednesday afternoon. Twenty three people were injured in the accident, two of them fatally. The bus driver survived the crash, but reportedly told witnesses he didn't know what led to the crash. The bus was on the way to Rochester from an Iowa casino. MPR Photo/Tim Nelson
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A worker helped guide a badly damaged tour bus onto the road as wreckers cleaned up after a fatal bus roll-over near Austin, Minn., on Wednesday afternoon. Twenty three people were injured in the accident, two of them fatally. The bus driver survived the crash, but reportedly told witnesses he didn't know what led to the crash. The bus was on the way to Rochester from an Iowa casino. MPR Photo/Tim Nelson (MPR Photo/Tim Nelson)

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Investigators to resume work in bus tour crash

by Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio,
Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio
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Authorities will get a better look today at the tour bus that flipped over on Interstate 90 yesterday afternoon near Austin, Minnesota. The crash killed two people and injured 21 others, with some in critical condition. The group was on the way back to Rochester, after a trip to the Diamond Jo casino in Northwood, Iowa. MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with reporter Tim Nelson who was in Austin, at Midtown towing, where the bus was taken last night. Investigators will be going there today to have a closer look at the damage.

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