In Swansea, Massachusetts on Tuesday, a 15-year-old high school student was seriously injured after colliding with a car and being hit by a bus. Police say the teen bicyclist was wearing headphones and carrying an iPod as he traveled east on Hinsdale Avenue. He then biked into the intersection and…
On Monday afternoon, a tour bus accident in Florida killed two people and injured several others. The tour group is based out of Boston and three Massachusetts residents are believed to be among the bus crash victims, although authorities have not released the names of those killed. All but one…
Earlier this week a crash involving a car and a school bus in Falmouth, Massachusetts injured the driver of the car. The motor vehicle accident occurred around 3:15pm on Monday. The school bus was carrying about 12 students at the time of the accident, and fortunately neither the bus driver…
Here in Massachusetts and around the country, safety advocates have been calling for a ban on text messaging while driving, which has been proven to increase the likelihood of an auto crash. On Tuesday, the Transportation Department unveiled its new rule that bans interstate commercial truck and bus drivers from…
A bus crash last week near Boston’s Copley Place injured a 54-year-old pedestrian. According to a press release issued by the Suffolk district attorney’s office, the MBTA bus accident occurred just after midnight near the intersection of Ring Road and Huntington Avenue. The Route 9 bus was headed west on…
Earlier this week, a bus crash injured Weezer frontman River Cuomo and his assistant as they were traveling to a concert scheduled for Monday night at Boston’s Agganis Arena. The tour bus reportedly hit a patch of ice and crashed into a ditch. According to one news source, Cuomo sustained…
In Massachusetts, a Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus hit a pedestrian who was attempting to cross the street a few weeks ago. Police report that the bus accident victim was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. The accident occurred just after 7am at the intersection of Main and Liberty…
Last week, police and registry inspectors caught at least 76 Massachusetts drivers for allegedly failing to stop for school buses picking up or dropping off student passengers. The annual event has been called “Operation Yellow Blitz” and is aimed at reminding those drivers that they must stop when a bus’s…
Last Monday, an accident in Holbrook involving an MBTA bus and another car was captured on one of the bus’ cameras, helping transit police determine who was at fault for the bus accident. Last week, the MBTA released the video, which shows the driver of a Chevy Malibu slumping over…
On Tuesday afternoon, a dump truck hit a school bus head on. The truck driver reportedly told police his brakes had given out, so he attempted to swerve around a line of stooped cars and slammed into the bus, which was stopped to let students unload. Several students cut their…