This past Sunday, April 1, 2012, a motor home crash in Kansas resulted in the death of five and injury of thirteen people.

The motor home passengers consisted of an extend family and friends on their way home from their annual Texas motor cross vacation when the vehicle went through a guardrail on Interstate 33 plummeting into a ravine,  (NTSB Looking Into Kan. RV Crash  That Killed 5, Maria Sudekum, http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ntsb-kan-rv-crash-killed-16065390).

The five that were killed in the accident were Tom Kerber, 25, and Melissa Kerber, 24 from New Prague Minnesota, Jessica Kerber, 10, Joy Kerber, 14, and James Kerber, 12, all from Jordan Minnesota. Among the thirteen injured was the 17-year old driver Adam Kerber, (Driver in Kansas crash that killed 5 Minnesotans held restricted license, Margaret Stafford, Associate Press, http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/233603/group/homepage/).

The details of the crash are being reviewed by the National Transportation Safety Board, which will include looking into laws that would have allowed a 17-year old to be the operator of a 57,000 lb motor home, (NTSB Looking Into Kan. RV Crash That Killed 5, Maria Sudekum).