BENTON, Ark. (AP) – A former member of a Tennessee youth football program that lost a player in a pre-dawn bus crash in Arkansas says the program can keep children from being lured into a world of drugs and crime.
One child from the Orange Mound Youth Association in Memphis was killed Monday when a charter bus veered off Interstate 30 near Benton, Arkansas, and tumbled down an embankment. At least 45 other people were hurt in the crash.
Resident Carlos Morgan says youth football is important in low-income neighborhoods such as Orange Mound because it “helps keep kids out of trouble,” and “shows the kids what the world actually is like.”
The 30-year-old Morgan says he was once a player on a youth traveling squad. He says the program “gives kids opportunity and brings the community together.”
WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady® NSI