According to Boston.com, University of Massachusetts students on their way to a ski trip in Canada sustained personal injuries in a bus crash on Decemer 3, 2010. Sixteen students were injured and the driver was hospitalized and in critical condition. The bus crashed in southern Vermont just before 4 p.m. Fourty-five people were on board, 17 were injured, and no other vehicles were involved. Luckily, all of the students were released from nearby hospitals by 9 p.m. and taken back to campus. The driver did not appear to apply the brakes as the bus lost control.
The bus was one of eight bound for a ski trip in Canada. Students on the trip said they had been told the driver had a heart attack. The crash occurred about 5 miles north of Exit 4 on a relatively flat, straight stretch of highway. Road conditions were dry and clear. Police closed I-91 southbound at Exit 5 immediately after the accident and State Police opened both lanes before 7 p.m. Rescue workers had to cut out the front windshield to extricate the driver who was taken by helicopter to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., where he was reported in critical but stable condition. Some injured students had concussions.
Apparently, the driver worked for the company for several years. However, the driver had a pre-existing heart condition, which the bus company should have known about.
Bus accidents involving any kind of personal injury are frightening to learn about especially with young students involved.
The law firm of Bellotti Law Group, P.C. handles all types of motor vehicle injury cases.
