Posted on 22nd July 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, bus crash, bus crash attorney, fatal bus crash, Fresno bus crash, Greyhound bus crash
Six people were killed and more than 30 injured in a Greyhound bus crash early Thursday morning on Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., according to press reports. The dead included the bus driver.
http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Six-dead-in-Greyhound-Bus-crash-at-Highway-99-and-McKinley-Ave-99012474.html
The bus was going from Los Angeles to Sacramento on Highway 99 when it suddently encountered a disabled vehicle at about 2 a.m. A Chevy Trailblazer had flipped over in a single-vehicle accident. The bus veered to avoid hitting the SUV, and instead struck a car and went off the road.
The bus then hit a concrete center divider and then a eucalyptus tree, and stopped. This all took place at the McKinley Avenue off-ramp.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/six-dead-in-greyhound-bus-collision-near-fresno.html
Five people were dead inside the bus, which carried 47 passengers, and one died later at a hospital, according to the Los Angeles Times. It also reported that four other people suffered major injuries and were in critical condition and six had minor injuries.
Police closed the northbound lanes of Highway 99 at Olive Avenue as they went on with their investigation.
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Posted on 13th July 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
ambulance crash, bus accident, bus accident attorney, Harlem bus crash
Nineteen people were injured when four vehicles, including a New York City bus and a firetruck, had an accident in Harlem last Friday. And a female motorist talking on a cellphone may have caused the pile-up.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/10/2010-07-10_fdny_ambulance_city_bus_and_two_other_vehicles_collide_in_busy_harlem_street.html
The multi-vehicle crash took place when a woman driving an Acura sedan pulled out right in front of an ambulance that was racing down West 125th Stree shortly before noon.
One witness told the New York Daily News that the woman didn’t hear the FDNY ambulance’s siren because she was talking on a cellphone.
The ambulance tried to manuever out of the woman’s way. But it still ran into the Acura and then hit a municipal city bus at the intersection of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Power Boulevard. Then an SUV hit the bus.
The injured were taken to local hospitals, but didn’t appear to have serous injuries.
It wasn’t known where the Acura driver would be charged for the collision.
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Posted on 7th July 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, bus accident attorney, bus accident lawyer, Pennsylvania bus accident
This is an especially tragic story: A bus driver in northeastern Pennsylvania died when her bus hit another one that her husband was driving.
Ruth Lynady, 72, was thrown out of the bus she was driving Tuesday in the accident in Ararat, Pa., which is in Susquehanna County.
Her husband William Lynady was driving the other bus involved in the crash, according to state police. The husband was in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The family of the Lynadys, who lived in Clarks Summit, Pa., confirmed their relationship, according to the Associated Press.
The Lynadys were both driving their buses to a local camp, and they didn’t have any passengers aboard.
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Posted on 7th June 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, bus accident attorney, bus crash, shuttle bus accident, wedding party bus accident
It’s not the way anyone would want to start off their marriage. But I guess it’s proof that this bride-to-be and her groom wouldn’t let injury — or death – keep them apart.
Lauren Magee and Tom Hanley were among 14 people who were hurt about 2 p.m. Saturday in Indianapolis when the shuttle bus carrying them and their wedding party to take pre-wedding photos got into an accident, colliding with a sport utility vehicle.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iieMb5-H1RXZ_Jz5xe_aCMFFtWowD9G5F9580A
Wedding party member James Douglas, 29, was killed.
According to eyewitness reports, the driver of the shuttle bus ran a red light, causing the fatal accident. The shuttle bus was knocked on its side buring the crash.
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100607/NEWS06/100607005/1002/NEWS01/Indianapolis-police–Bus-carrying-wedding-party-ran-red-light-
Despite that tragedy, Magee and Hanley went forward with their wedding, which took place at the hospital where they and half of their injured wedding party were taken for treatment, Methodist Hospital. The hospital set up a conference room for the ceremony.
The seven wedding party members who were treated at Wishard Memorial Hospital were transported to Methodist Hospital for the ceremony, along with 100 others. Many of those guests had been set to attend the wedding at its original location, a downtown Indianapolis event center.
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Posted on 17th May 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, bus rollover, Philadelphia bus accident
Nearly two dozen poeple were injured Monday when their bus rolled over several times in Philadelphia. http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/21-Hurt-After-Bus-Flips-Several-Times-93961109.html
The accident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, on East Westmoreland Street, according to authorities.
The bus was driving down Westmoreland and then overturned, flipping over a number of times. The bus’s back end was ripped off during the accident.
There were 21 people hurt in the rollover, according to police, with two of them taken to the hospital in critical condition.
There was no information on the cause of the accident.
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Posted on 11th May 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, Chicago CTA bus accident
A Chicago Transit Authority bus, trying to miss hitting an SUV, Monday slammed into a school building in Chicago, injuring a dozen people, two of them critically, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2256808,cta-bus-crash-school-humbodlt-park-051010.article#
The accident took place on Chicago Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side shortly after 4 p.m., a CTA spokeswoman told the Sun-Times.
The bus was carrying 12 passengers, as well as the driver.
One witness said that a black SUV caused the crash. The SUV driver, apparently trying to pass a slow-moving car, sped up and got into the lane that the bus was in. The witness said that the bus driver swerved to avoid hitting the SUV, and the bus then struck a car and went in into the school.
One news report blamed the accident on the road rage of the SUV’s driver, who passed the car that he felt was moving too slowly. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/cta-bus-crash-building-93320449.html
Ambulances took 12 people to the hospital. Two, the bus driver and the driver of the car that was hit, were reported in serious to critical condition. Nine of the victims were in fair to serious condition, and a final one was good to fair.
The building that the bus crashed into is the Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy. No one was in the school when the accident took place.
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Posted on 20th April 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, Joliet
A school bus accident Monday in Joliet, Ill., injured nine elementary school children, who were taken to hospitals. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2174426,joliet-bus-crash-laraway-elementary-041910.article#
The school bus was traveling on Route 53 near Zarley Road, on its way to Laraway Elementary School in Joliet, when the driver lost control and the bus landed in a ditch.
The bus’s driver, Jeffrey Baranski, 63, was taken to the hospital with facial injuries. There were 29 children on the bus, and nine were taken to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet. Their injuries were not serious.
Baranski was cited by police with failing to reduce speed to avoid a crash and failing to wear a seat belt.
He was driving the bus north on Route 53 when he tried to turn around to go south. But while attempting the turn he lost control of the bus, which went into a ditch in a center median.
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Posted on 14th April 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, California bus crash, California Highway Patrol, fatigue
Driver fatigue may have led to a fatal tour bus crash in central California that killed five people last year. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvBgNaKNWgGY-F9erxEe0J3eZU6QD9F2CR000
On Monday the California Highway Patrol released its report on the April 28, 2009, accident in Soledad, Calif.
The bus, which was driving French tourists, struck a guardrail and overturned some 100 miles south of San Francisco.
In the report authorities said that more than a dozen passengers saw bus driver John Agnew falling asleep and missing exits on the trip.
Before the accident Agnew made an unsafe turn, and the report blamed his actions on fatigue. Agnew and four passengers died in the crash.
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Posted on 8th April 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
bus accident, Denver bus crash
The driver of a Regional Transportation District bus in Denver will be charged with 13 misdemeanor charges stemming from a crash that left two people dead. But the man won’t face more serious felony charges. http://www.denverpost.com/news/frontpage/ci_14834533
Last Saturday Tideneykiyalesh Hawariyat, 30, of Aurora ran a red light while driving an RTD bus, hitting a car and killing Carla Miranda and Dustin Peletier, both 29, of Denver.
Denver police said that Hawariyat had been charged with 11 counts of careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury, and two counts of careless driving resulting in death.
Hawariyat is employed by Veolia Transportation, a private company that provides transit service for RTD. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/23070922/detail.html
She will not be arrested because her charges are only traffic misdemeanors. Police decided that Hawariyat did not meet the legal standard for the tougher charge of reckless driving, which entails intentional disregard for the safety of others.
Hawariyat faces 10 days to a year in country jail, and fines of $300 to $1,400, for each count against her.
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Posted on 4th April 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
boy on bike killed by bus, brain injury, bus accident, bus accident at Disney, bus accident lawyer, Disney fatal accident
In a horrific accident in a fantasy world, a 9-year-old boy died after being hit by a bus at Walt Disney World’s Fort Wilderness Resort in Florida Thursday. http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/23026301/detail.html
Chase Brubaker of St. Petersburg, Fla., was riding his bike with a young girl on the sidewalk on Big Pine Drive. But then Brubaker apparently left the sidewalk and went into the road. He hit the side of a bus, was pulled underneath it and then was run over by the vehicle.
The boy, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was wearing a helmet. The girl was unharmed.
The man driving the bus, which picks up visitors along the Fort Wilderness Loop, was David Russel Rich, of Montverde, Fla. Police said a full investigation could take as long as two months.
“We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the boy’s family d loved ones for their loss,” a Disney spokeswoman said.
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