Three people died on Sunday when a bus crossed the median on Interstate 40 near Forrest City and crashed into a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck, according to Arkansas State Police.

The accident happened around 10 p.m., when the Tornado Bus Co. bus first hit the pickup and then collided with the 18-wheeler, State Police representative Bill Sadler said.

Pickup driver, Danny Okurily, 40, of Hot Spring, Arkansas together with other two passengers of the bus died in the accident, State Police said, according to the Associated Press. Their identities have not been released yet. Bus driver Felix Tapia, 28, of Brownsville, Texas and tractor-trailer driver David Rice, 45, of Mars Hill, N.C., suffered minor injuries.

State Police have not said how many others suffered injuries, but Sadler says that the bus listed 44 passengers on its manifest. The bus belonged to Tornado Bus Line, based in Dallas, Texas and it was traveling from Chicago to Dallas.

Those injured were taken to hospitals in Forrest City, West Memphis and Memphis, Tenn.

The traffic was stopped for a while in both directions as emergency crews worked at the scene. Shortly after the crash, a state police dispatcher said about a dozen victims needed to be extricated from the bus. According to witnesses, there were also children among the passengers.