The Latest: Charter company says it’d recently sold vehicle

Cars pass under the North Hills Blvd. bridge near the area where a charter bus ran off Interstate 40 and hit a bridge abutment earlier in the morning in North Little Rock, Ark., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. Some passengers were killed in the crash along with several injuries. A heavy storm had recently passed through the area and left light rain and fog in its wake, but it wasn't immediately known if weather played a role. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson) Cars pass under the North Hills Blvd. bridge near the area where a charter bus ran off Interstate 40 and hit a bridge abutment earlier in the morning in North Little Rock, Ark., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. Some passengers were killed in the crash along with several injuries. A heavy storm had recently passed through the area and left light rain and fog in its wake, but it wasn't immediately known if weather played a role. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

By Associated Press November 6, 2015 3 min read

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The latest on the crash of a cross-country bus in North Little Rock, Arkansas:

7:45 a.m.

The owner of a Michigan company whose name is emblazoned on a charter bus involved in a fatal crash in Arkansas says he’d recently sold a bus.

Jeff Lawson, who identified himself as the owner of Continental Charters in Detroit, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper that he sold a bus Saturday to a man who “said he needed a second bus to haul people from (Detroit) to Texas… and Florida.”

The bus that crashed early Friday on Interstate 40 in Arkansas had “Continental” displayed on the side, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it was the same bus that was recently sold.