Inc, and he had transported the team on the same route a year before. The Niemeyers checked into a Comfort Inn at Adairsville just after 7:30 pm the evening before the crash. From all indications, Niemeyer had taken the rest period required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Standards before taking over the motorcoach. Accident The team was from Bluffton University, a Mennonite liberal arts college in Bluffton, Ohio. They were riding a chartered motorcoach operated by Executive Coach Luxury Travel, Inc. of Ottawa, Ohio, near Bluffton. The bus was traveling to a tournament game during spring break in Sarasota, Florida. The group planned to travel without an overnight stop on the approximately 900-mile, 18-hour trip. Neimeyer took over as the driver earlier in the morning at a motel in Adairsville when it was time for a driver switch. About an hour later, they were in Atlanta, heading south on Interstate 75 in the high-occupancy vehicle lane. Niemeyer, apparently mistaken, drove left onto an exit ramp, which rose upward to a wide elevated road and a T-junction, marked by a stop sign, with Northside Drive (US 41). Without braking, the bus swerved rightward across the road, attempting to go southbound on Northside Drive. Unable to make the turn, it hit the low barrier wall, which caused the back end of the bus to swing around to the right, pointing it due northbound. The momentum of this swing caused the entire right side of the bus to crash into and then over the low wall and through the guard rail on top of it. Flipping over 270° (¾-rotation), it dropped to the freeway below, landing on its left side and hitting a pickup truck. The pickup's driver, who rapidly accelerated when he saw the bus plunging, was not hurt. At 5:41 am, a 9-1-1 call came in from a player on the charter bus, pleading for help. The majority of the injured baseball players were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest hospital in Atlanta with a level 1 trauma center. An entire wing was cleared out for the baseball players and their families. Several players were also treated at Atlanta Medical Center, a Level 2 trauma center. The team coach was treated at Piedmont Hospital. Victims Of the 35 people on the bus, seven were killed as a result of the crash. The 29 passengers that originally survived the crash