“I remember waking up in the hospital screaming. I have never screamed so much in my life,” she said. “I kept forgetting where I was and I would just scream and not stop because the pain was so intense.” (Ganim, Zamost, cnn.com) The quote above is from Elora Lencoski describing the night in late 2013 when she was a passenger on a Greyhound bus that crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer, killing one woman and injuring dozens of other people. Whether you regularly ride on a Greyhound bus like Elora did or on a New Jersey Transit bus like so many of our readers…
Bus Accidents
$100,000 settlement of bus accident case (Essex County, New Jersey 2013).
A large percentage of fatalities in motor vehicle accidents involve a bus. Every year thousands of drivers and passengers are either killed or seriously injured in accidents involving a bus. The accidents may be caused by driver error or the negligence of the bus company, including mechanical failures, reckless driving, inadequate driver training and often driver fatigue. Finding the precise cause of a bus accident can be difficult and time consuming. We will carefully examine the facts of each bus accident. We will retain experienced engineering experts to help determine which regulations and Federal and State laws apply to each accident. Our partners have…