Category: Bus Accidents

Four Chinese tourists were killed and at least a dozen others were hospitalized with injuries after a tour bus bound for Monterey Park in Los Angeles County crashed in southern Utah on Sept. 20. According to a KTLA news report, the victims have been identified as Ling Geng, 68, Xiuyun Chen, 67, Zhang Caiyu, 62, and Zhongliang Qui, 65. They were all from Shanghai, China, and were part of a tour group organized by Shanghai Zhuyuan International Travel Agency comprising 29 tourists and one tour leader. …Read the rest »

A freeway bus crash left 40 people injured after the vehicle smashed through a concrete barrier on the 405. The San Diego freeway bus accident happened at about 1pm on Sunday Oct. 14, when the bus was travelling along the northbound 405 near the North Hills area. It was spotted turning sharply to the right, before suddenly veering left across four lanes of traffic and crashing through the central barrier onto the southbound side of the freeway. The incident was covered by various news outlets, with the Daily Mail even carrying dashcam footage of the crash which was captured by a nearby car. …Read the rest »

At least 25 people were injured in a Los Angeles bus accident after a tour bus carrying 32 passengers collided with a barrier and tipped over on the 10 Freeway early morning on July 14. According to a news report in the Los Angeles Times, 25 passengers were transported to area hospitals. Four were said to be in serious condition, five in fair condition and 16 in good condition. The bus accident occurred on the 10 West near the 110 Freeway interchange with the bus striking impact buffers before ending up on its side. …Read the rest »

Thirteen people were hospitalized with injuries they suffered in a Los Angeles bus accident the morning of March 22. According to news reports, the collision occurred on the eastbound 10 Freeway in the Express Lanes at Soto Street in Boyle Heights. A Greyhound bus collided with a Foothill charter bus prompting a SigAlert. Officials said the chain of events began when a car left the roadway, struck a tree and tumbled into traffic lanes. As traffic began to back up, a Greyhound intercity bus that was on its way to Las Vegas, rear-ended a Foothill Transit commuter bus. …Read the rest »

A self-driving shuttle bus crashed less than two hours after it was launched in Las Vegas this week. According to news reports, city officials had hosted an unveiling ceremony for the bus, described as the country’s first driverless shuttle bus. Within two hours, the bus crashed with a semi-truck. The human driver of the other vehicle was determined to have been at fault. There were no injuries. The oval-shaped bus sponsored by AAA can transport up to 12 passengers at a time. It has an attendant and a computer monitor and uses GPS and electric curb sensors instead of brake pedals or a steering wheel. …Read the rest »

The driver of a tour bus that crashed into a stopped big-rig on the 10 Freeway near Palm Springs in October 2016 that left 12 passengers dead was most responsible for the crash, a CHP investigation has concluded.According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the driver of the tour bus, Teodulo Elias Vides, also died in the crash. The bus was carrying 42 passengers from the Red Earth casino in Thermal and was going west at 76 mph in a 70-mph zone at the time of the 5:15 a.m. crash. …Read the rest »

At least 13 people were dead and two others were injured in a head-on crash involving a 2004 Turtle Top bus that was ferrying a church group. According to a Fox news report, all the victims who died were senior adults who attended First Baptist Church of New Braunfels, Texas, including the driver. The bus was carrying 14 senior adults and traveling on U.S. 83 outside Garner State Park in northern Uvalde County when a pickup truck driver, 20-year-old Jack Dillon Young, veered into the opposite lane of traffic and crashed into the church bus. …Read the rest »

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have determined that inadequate road markings were to blame for a devastating January 2016 Greyhound bus accident in San Jose that left two dead and a dozen others injured. According to a news report in the San Jose Mercury News, NTSB officials said the absence of reflective warning markers preceding a gore point separating the carpool lane connector to Highway 85 from 101, caused the bus driver to think he was in the connector lane when he was actually heading straight into a concrete barrier. …Read the rest »

A jury in Compton has awarded $26 million to the family of Mason Zisette, a Manhattan Beach teen, who was killed in an accident aboard a double-decker Starline tour bus. According to a news report in the Daily Breeze, the jury awarded the largest jury verdict ever awarded in California for the wrongful death of a minor child. Jurors found the tour bus company 70 percent at fault for what happened and assigned 25 percent of the blame to the parents of a girl whose Sweet 16 party Mason was attending when he was aboard the bus.

On July 10, 2014, Mason hit his head against the Spruce Street pedestrian bridge as he stood upstairs on the open-air bus that was traveling south on the 405 Freeway in Inglewood. Mason seemed to have suffered only a bump on the head. But he immediately lost consciousness from a severe traumatic brain injury and never awakened. Mason’s mother has said she plans to use it to work with lawmakers to change legislation that will help improve bus safety. …Read the rest »

Even as parents in Chattanooga Tennessee are mourning the deaths of at least five children whose lives were cut short when their school bus crashed into a tree, the debate over whether children traveling by school buses should wear seatbelts has been revived. According to a CNN news report, the 24-year-old school bus driver has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide. As the investigation continues into this tragic incident, many people across the country are left wondering if those young lives could have been saved, had the school bus been equipped with seatbelts. …Read the rest »