JASPER - Authorities blame a brake failure for a bus crash that plunged nearly 50 would-be campers into a ravine in northern Georgia late Friday night.
Twenty-seven people were treated for broken bones and bruises. The two teenagers who were hospitalized with head injuries were released yesterday.
Only a fallen tree seemed to stop the bus from a potentially deadly fall fruther down the north Georgia mountain.
The accident happened as the bus brought high school and middle school students from Jackson, Tennessee to Sharp Top Cove, a camp run by the Young Life Christian ministry.
Barletta Dagley was visiting the camp with two grandchildren when vans packed with the students arrived at the camp after the accident. She said the kids were hollering ``We're alive! We're alive!''
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