Driver crashes Greyhound bus on North Freeway, injures six passengers

Passengers aboard a Greyhound bus were shaken and unnerved after their driver lost control of the bus and crashed it into a concrete barrier.

 

The crash, which happened in the North Freeway HOV lane below a bridge near Shepherd, occurred not long after the Greyhound bus left the station.  According to police, the bus was headed north when the driver became confused about where he was supposed to go and headed back south in the HOV lane. 

 

When he took the exit for Shepherd the driver was, according to police, traveling too fast and subsequently lost control of the bus.  As a result the bus collided with a concrete barrier, scaring passengers who thought the bus was going to tip over.

 

Six passengers were taken to a local hospital to be treated for their injuries which turned out to be mild.  The remaining passengers waited for another Greyhound bus to take them to their destination.

 

The passengers had every reason to fear for their lives.  If not operated and maintained properly, buses can be very dangerous vehicles.  Almost exactly a year ago a bus plunged off an I-75 overpass in Sherman when its driver lost control after a tire blew, killing seventeen people.

 

Investigations into the fatal Sherman bus crash revealed a number of troubling trends in the bus industry, which we summarized in a blog last month.