Tragedy: Boom in oil and traffic deaths

Three fracking crew workers for Compass Well Services LLC. died after the company van they were riding in struck a school bus, which had stopped to retrieve a student on rural State Highway 72 in January 2014.

Petrochemical vehicles abound on State Highway 72 near an RV Park where three members of a fracking crew died when their van collided with a school bus. That is one of four accidents on State Highway 72 in which three or more people were injured. The 111-mile-long highway has become one of the state’s most deadly roads during the oil boom.

Petrochemical vehicles abound on State Highway 72 near an RV Park where three members of a fracking crew died when their van collided with a school bus. That is one of four accidents on State Highway 72 in which three or more people were injured. The 111-mile-long highway has become one of the state’s most deadly roads during the oil boom.