Month: July 2016

Bus accidents were in the headlines this week according to https://whkpa.com/auto-accidents/. A school bus collided with a pick-up truck on Monday, and a chartered bus struck a disabled semi early Thursday morning.
Oregon State Police issued citations to the occupants of the pick-up. The driver, 86, was attempting to turn around when the bus ran into his vehicle. Officers cited him for violation of a traffic control device. His passenger, a 35-year-old woman, was cited for having an open container of alcohol in the truck.
Both occupants of the truck sustained minor injuries. The driver and two passengers of the bus — ages 13 and 18 — were also injured.
The charter bus was traveling west on Interstate 80 around 2 a.m. Thursday when it struck a disabled tractor trailer blocking all westbound lanes of traffic.
Officials reported that the driver of the semi had drifted into the median, overcorrected and flipped onto its side. Another semi was unable to avoid the overturned truck. It clipped the first truck and came to rest in a ditch.
The bus followed the second semi into the fray. The bus hit the median after it ran into the first truck.
Emergency personnel transported the injured to a nearby medical center. A hospital spokesperson said 30 people were treated for minor injuries and released. Five people, including the bus driver and the driver of the first truck, were admitted. The hospital representative did not identify the patients by name but said that one was in critical condition, one in serious condition and the rest in fair condition.
Officials said the bus driver had 10 years of experience. In her seven years with this company, she has driven 824,000 miles without an accident.
The company has a clean safety record. The bus itself is new. Regulations require all commercial buses to have seat belts, as this one did, but passengers are not required to buckle up.

A New Jersey motor vehicle accident between a dump truck and a school bus has claimed the life of a New Jersey girl and left her two sisters critically injured. The motor vehicle accident victims are triplets and the daughters of a New Jersey State Police trooper. The triplets were among 17 victims of the tragic bus and truck accident.
The bus and truck accident was reported shortly after 8:00 a.m. Thursday. Law enforcement says that 25 students were aboard the school bus when the bus crossed into intersection along Route 528 at Old York Road. The intersection has a red blinking light on Old York road. A dump truck, traveling on Route 528 drove through an amber blinking light at that intersection and slammed into the school bus on the driver’s side of the bus, near the rear of the bus.
The bus spun upon impact and was hurled into a utility pole, which embedded itself into the left side of the bus.
The dump truck careened of the bus and came to a stop in a grassy area along Route 528. Emergency responders used a nearby house as a makeshift triage center to evaluate the condition of the truck and bus accident victims.
Authorities say that 17 of the 25 students aboard the bus were injured and required hospitalization at multiple hospitals after the wreck. Nine students were treated at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital-Hamilton. Authorities say that one of the injured was released Thursday afternoon.  The lawyers  see accidents like this in Houston all the time.