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Nyanga Bus Disaster
On the night of 3 August 1991, a crowded B & C company bus carrying more than 100 students and staff of Regina Coeli Mission school overshot a sharp bend near the village of Troutbeck killing 89 people including 82 students.

Location of the crush
The accident happened in Nyanga, 289 km southeast of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, near a Troutback village.

Before the Crush
Regina Coeli Mission student were coming from a sporting event at St Killian. The bus was overspeeding and when the bus stopped at Brondesbury Service Station to refuel, a motorist stopped to caution the driver, but he would have none of it. Students pleaded with the driver to stop and let them walk the remaining 20 miles on foot but the driver refused sitting his experince of navigating terrain like Nyanga with curving roads.

The Crush
Nearing the village of Troutbeck, the driver failed to negotiate a sharp bend and lost control of the bus which over turned. The driver was believed to be under the influence of alcohol, he was amongst the dead together with his conductor and luagage loader. The cause of the accident was overspeeding which resulted in the driver failing to negotiate a sharp curve. This is Zimbabwe's worst bus accident where innocent childen died as a result of a stubbon drunken driver.