Trial to begin in 2013 deadly Statesville church group bus crash

STATESVILLE, N.C. — The trial over a deadly 2013 bus crash involving a Statesville church group will begin Tuesday.

A dozen survivors and five estate holders filed a lawsuit against the tire manufacturer, Hankook Tire, alleging that the company knew or should have known the tire's design would put people in unreasonable danger.

Read our past coverage:

• Statesville church to release bios of victims; recovery continues for survivors
• Tenn. officials to discuss bus crash that killed 6 from Statesville
• Horrific bus crash stuns community; Victims from church ID'd
• 8 wooden crosses set up as memorial in deadly bus crash
• Siblings remember parents, bus driver who died in TN bus crash
• IMAGES: Deadly bus crash in TN was from Statesville

Six people from Front Street Baptist Church, along with two others involved in the crash, were killed when the bus's tire blew on Interstate 40 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

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