A New York City transit bus was driving along its normal route when it hit a pedestrian and smashed through a suburban home, leaving the six-year-old boy inside the home dead. Six year old David Granados and his seven year old brother had been playing in the Hempstead home’s front…
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Two Dead, Eighty Injured in Texas Crash
Two people have died and more than eighty have been injured in Southeast Texas after at least 140 vehicles crashed into one another. Tractor-trailers were left “twisted on top of another” as authorities worked to pull survivors from the wreckage. The Thursday morning collision, which occurred outside of Houston, was…
One Dead, Nine Injured in Arizona Bus Crash
A pickup truck headed the wrong way on an Arizona interstate is responsible injuring nine people about a charter bus. The driver crashed head first into a charter bus and burst into flames outside of Phoenix. While authorities could not determine if the driver was killed by the impact of…
Florida Driver Operators Tractor-Trailer With Faulty Breaks, Kills 2
A tractor-trailer that killed two Maryland construction workers was not registered to commercial operate and was operate with faulty breaks. The truck, which is registered to Noble Enterprise Transport LLC, of Fort Lauderdale, had “three of ten brakes not functioning at all and another three out of adjustment,” according to…
Bus Driver Convicted Of Manslaughter In Crash That Killed 4
Bus driver Kin Yiu Cheung put his passengers through a harrowing ordeal last year as he swerved from side to side, sped and erratically drove along a Virginia highway. According to passengers, Cheung was drinking coffee and Red Bull energy drinks before he finally fell asleep and lost control of…
Keys Woman Dies In Motorcycle Accident After Beating Cancer
Marlin Joyce Gunter of Marathon, Florida died Saturday while riding her motorcycle near mile marker 29. She was a passenger on her 2004 Harley Davidson bike, which was being driven by her friend Thomas Bateman, when they were rear-ended by another car. The force of the impact pushed the bike…
1 Dead, 2 Injured in Okeechobee Crash
An early morning crash has left one dead, two injured and sugar all over the road. A tractor-trailer and a freight truck collided on Okeechobee Road early this morning. The tractor-trailer was split in half and the freight truck was engulfed in flames. The freight truck was carrying almost forty…
School Board Member’s Daughter Declared Brain Dead After Crash With Hialeah Police
Andrea Castillo, the daughter of newly-elected of the Miami-Dade School Board, was declared irreversibly brain dead late last week after she was injured in a car accident with an undercover Hialeah police officer. Castillo and her boyfriend were driving in an SUV heading eastbound on East Ninth Court when they…
Truck Crashes Into Palm Tran Bus, 13 Injured
On Monday morning, a Palm Tran bus, driving along its regular route, was rear-ended when it stopped to pick a passenger around 6:45 a.m. The bus, which was heading east on Southern Boulevard, near D Road was hit from behind by a pickup truck. This is the second Palm Tran…
Eight Children Hospitalized After Ellenton Bus Crash
Early Monday morning, eight children were injured in a school bus accident while on their way to school. The students were heading to Virgil Mills Elementary School when a Ford Focus collided with the bus. Of the fifty-nine students aboard the bus, eight were taken to local hospitals. Seven were…