Greyhound Bus Crash In San Jose Kills 2, Injures 18 [Video]
A Greyhound bus crash in San Jose killed two people and injured 18 others. The incident occurred Tuesday morning on Highway 101.
CBS Local in Los Angeles reports that a Greyhound bus rolled onto its side during a rainy commute in Northern California. Authorities say the crash killed two people and injured 18 others.
According to the report, the bus flipped on its side in the center divider while traveling north on Highway 101 in San Jose. The Greyhound bus crash occurred around 6:40 a.m., according to the San Jose Fire Department. Capt. Christopher Salcido said the bus was carrying the driver and 19 passengers.
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Greyhound spokeswoman Lanesha Gipson said the bus number was 86558 and was on schedule traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It had stops to make in San Jose and Oakland.
No other vehicles were involved in the San Jose bus crash. Investigators are trying to learn the cause of the accident. What’s known so far is the bus struck several impact barrels on the freeway before flipping on its right side. It’s unclear if the road was slippery or if the bus over-corrected by making a sudden move on the highway.
Salcido said five passengers suffered moderate injuries and 13 suffered minor injuries. Several were taken to area hospitals.
Traffic was already snarled due to rainy conditions, but the accident had cars stopped along the northbound section of Highway 101 for several miles.
According to KRON 4, the driver of the bus has been transported to the hospital with unknown injuries. The two people who were killed in the Greyhound bus crash were reportedly “ejected” from the vehicle, a CHP official confirms.
One of the passengers said the bus was half-full with 20 passengers. Another passenger told KRON he was sleeping when he felt a jolt from the bus overturning. A third passenger said that he and his girlfriend were trapped in the back of the vehicle and had to climb over the overturned bus to escape out the front of it.
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“We’re cooperating fully with local authorities on their investigation and conducting our own,” Gipson told CBS News.
CHP officials said that both lanes of Highway 101 in the area would be blocked for at least eight hours.
CBC News reports that last Thursday in British Columbia, another Greyhound bus crash place. Fortunately, no fatalities were involved in the accident.
According to the report, a bus flipped over on Highway 97, just south of Prince George, British Columbia, at around 8 a.m. There were eight passengers and a driver aboard the bus. Everyone was transported to the hospital with three having serious but non-life threatening injuries.
A truck driver, Keith Hill, who was on the highway at the time, said road conditions that morning were slippery and had been two days before.
“I would describe it as black ice, because it didn’t look slippery,” Hill said.
Hill said the bus was traveling northbound, but it was facing southbound on the south side of the road. He said the vehicle had “done a complete spin.”
Having over 26 years experience driving trucks, Hill surmised that there wasn’t enough sand being spread on a particularly bad patch of highway. A manager responsible for highway maintenance on that stretch of road, John Andrusko of Emcon Services, said it had been sanded twice before the accident.
Greyhound Canada told CBC News that the company was cooperating fully with officials and has launched its own investigation.
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