Posted on 16th March 2013 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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There has been a second fatal crash of a bus carrying a college lacrosse team, with the latest one killing a pregnant coach, her unborn infant and the bus driver, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/16/seton-hill-bus-crash_n_2891932.html?ncid=webmail1
On Saturday about 9 a.m. a bus carrying the Seton Hill University lacrosse team went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carlisle, Pa., and crashed into a tree, AP reported.
Coach Kristina Quigley, 30, of Greensburg, Pa., was transported by air to a hospital, where she died. She had been six months pregnant and her unborn baby also died, according to AP. The bus driver, 61-year-old Anthony Guaetta of Johnstown was dead at the scene.
There had been 23 passengers aboard the bus, which was en route to play a game at Millersville University. That lacrosse game, and one scheduled for Sunday, were both cancelled.
Authorities didn’t know the cause of the accident, which sheared off the left side of the bus, AP reported. The bus was operated by Mlaker Charter & Tours of Davidsville, Pa.
A bus carrying a lacrosse team from a Vermont college and a sports car collided Tuesday in Upstate New York, leaving a passenger in the car dead.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
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Posted on 11th March 2013 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A man died Monday when he crashed into the back of an MTA bus and then rolled into a gas station at the corner of Jamaica and Euclid avenues in Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reported.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-man-killed-ramming-car-back-stopped-bus-article-1.1285112
Luis Angel Duran, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene, where he was trapped in his badly crushed Honda Accord, according to the News.
The city bus was stopped at an intersection when Duran crashed into its rear around 4:30 a.m., and authorities didn’t know what happened and why he hit the bus, the News reported. The front of Duran’s car was totally destroyed.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 28th January 2013 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A woman was mowed down by a private bus for the disabled in Brooklyn last Friday as her horrified husband looked on, according to the New York Post and New York Daily News.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/oh_my_god_help_bWTf5uwowr17cCw0O3FyYK
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-dead-bus-crash-article-1.1247553
Lorraine Ferguson, 47, was hit by, and her head crushed, during the accident at the intersection of East 105th Street and Avenue K in Canarsie, according to the Daily News. Lorraine’s husband Michael Ferguson had driven her to a city bus stop so she wouldn’t have to wait outside in the bitter cold for it.
When she saw her B103 Express bus to Midtown Manhattan coming, Lorraine started crossing the street to get on-board, the News and Post reported. But at that time, a small charter bus was making a turn and hit her, and she wound up crushed and dead beneath that bus.
Her husband claims that the charter bus ran a stop sign and hit his wife, the News reported. Ferguson was so diatraught that he broke down and collapsed at the scene.
The charter bus had two handicapped children as passengers, and neither one was hurt in the accident.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 11th January 2013 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A commuter bus struck a mini school bus in the rear in central New Jersey Wednesday morning, seriously injuring several passengers, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/old_bridge_bus_crash_injures_1.html
The accident happened at about 8 a.m. in Old Bridge on Route 9 and involved a 55-seat Academy bus bound for Manhattan and a 24-seat local school bus, The Ledger reported. When the large bus hit the minibus, the small vehicle turned over and hit a power supply station. The Academy bus then continued moving until it hit a tree, according to The Ledger.
Some witnesses said that school bus had cut off the Academy bus, which had 35 people on it, near a local apartment complex. There were no children aboard the school bus.
Two people, including the driver, from the commuter bus were hospitalized after the accident. Roughly a dozen more people were treated and released, The Ledger reported.
The crash is under investigation, with authorities planning to look at a video from a camera that was in the Academy bus, according to The Ledger.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 1st January 2013 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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Rescuers had a difficult time getting to and helping the victims of a bus accident in Oregon that killed nine passengers and injured another three dozen Sunday morning, according to The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/us/scale-of-oregon-bus-crash-that-killed-9-hindered-response.html?_r=0
Ten local ambulance corps responded to the accident site off icy Interstate 84 in Pendleton, where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and fell down a ravine. EMTs had to carry victims on stretchers up from the bottom of the dangerous, slippery ravine, The Times reported.
And many of the passengers only spoke Korean, making communication difficult. Finally, some of the victims had been thrown from the bus, and their personal identification was difficult to locate, according to The Times.
The bus was on its way to its point of origin, Vancouver, from a trip to Las Vegas.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 28th December 2012 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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An employee of tony Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan was struck and killed by a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus after leaving work Wednesday night, according to the New York Post.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tragic_final_shift_Ry1bH4HR7FyzBosp0526wM
Aileen Martinez, 33, of the Bronx had agreed to close up the Tom Ford makeup counter for a co-worker, and left the upscale store about 8 p.m. She was walking across Seventh Avenue at West 59th Street in pouring rain when she was hit by a Staten Island Express bus, the Post reported.
The bus driver, who didn’t have any passengers, had made a left onto Seventh Avenue when he struck Martinez, according to the Post. He stayed at the scene of the accident and wasn’t charged with anything relating to the accident.
The MTA was probing whether Martinez was jaywalking when she was hit and whether the bad weather contributed to the fatal accident, the Post reported.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 22nd December 2012 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A school bus on a field trip crashed last Wednesday on the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois, injuring 22 people, most of them kids, according to the Daily Herald.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121219/news/712199773/
The accident involving a bus from Palombi Middle School in Lake Villa took place on I-94 near Deerfield Road at about 9:30 a.m., and two adults and 20 students were taken to five local hospitals, the newspaper reported.
The bus was struck when two trucks behind it hit each other, and then one of them hit the bus. The bus was one of nine buses transporting students to Allstate Arena in Rosemont for a Chicago Wolves games, according to the Daily Herald.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 18th December 2012 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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A Metro bus driver in Houston was killed Tuesday night when he crashed into a street sign on the Gulf Freeway, according to the Houston Chronicle.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Driver-reportedly-killed-in-Metro-bus-crash-4129467.php
The driver, who wasn’t identified, lost control of the bus around 7 p.m., hitting an exit sign near Broadway, the Chronicle reported. He was alone in the bus when the accident took place.
Officials were at the scene investigating why the driver lost control of the bus, since no other vehicle appeared to be involved.
Patrons at a nearby restaurant ran to the bus when they heard the crash, and when they found the driver he was dead. One of those patrons told the Chronicle that he suspected the bus driver has suffered a heart attack.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 1st December 2012 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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Two elderly passengers were killed Saturday, and three others critically hurt, when their bus hit a concrete overpass at Miami International Airport, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/2-die-in-Miami-church-group-bus-crash-4083996.php
The accident happened when the driver of the bus, which was transporting 32 members of a church group, got lost at the airport, AP reported. The bus struck the 8-foot-6-inch entrance to the arrival area, instead of going to the departure area, where clearance was higher, AP said.
One passenger died at the scene and another died at a local hospital. Three people had serious injuries and were hospitalized.
The group on the bus were Jehovah’s Witnesses from Sweetwater who were traveling to a convention in West Palm Beach, according to AP. The bus was owned by Miami Bus Service Corp.
There are several warning signs at the airport telling drivers in big vehicles not to go beneath the low concrete overpass, AP reported. One says “High Vehicle STOP Turn Left.” The second one says vehicles higher than 8-foot-6 have to turn left.
AP said that the bus driver was being interviewed by authorities, and it wasn’t known if charges would be filed against him.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Posted on 26th November 2012 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
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Five people were injured Monday in a three-vehicle crash that involved a limo bus driving students to a private school in Washington, according to WTOP-TV.
http://www.wtop.com/109/3132892/Children-injured-in-DC-limo-bus-crash
A Reston Limousine limo bus that was transporting children to The Field School from the Friendship Heights Metro station was among the vehicles in the accident. Three children and two adults — including the limo bus driver — were taken to a local hospital for treatment, WTOP reported. And 16 additional children were taken to a hospital for observation.
The accident took place on Nebraska Avenue, with a 16-year-old and a 32-year-old driving the two other vehicles involved, according to WTOP.
The back window of the limo bus was broken during the crash.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
g@gordonjohnson.com :: 800-992-9447 :: Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
