Last summer, a Greyhound bus crashed on I-70 in Highland, IL, killing three passengers and injuring more than a dozen others. The crash happened when the bus collided with three semi-trucks parked on the shoulder of an exit ramp near the Silver Lake rest area. In interviews done with passengers following the crash, one passenger claimed the bus driver repeatedly “drove in the middle of the road between the two lanes” and “kept hitting rumble strips on the shoulder side.”
Another passenger claimed the bus driver seemed to make no attempt to correct the bus’s course before it hit the parked semi-trucks. It was later determined that the Greyhound bus driver had four prior collisions on his record, two of them classified as “preventable.” In one of the crash reports from a preventable accident, the driver was deemed “fatigued” and “driving at an unsafe speed for current traffic conditions.” Despite this, the driver received no citations.
While traveling by bus is generally considered one of the safer modes of travel, in this instance, it seems like critical issues with the driver were overlooked, creating a personal injury accident. If you are injured in a bus accident, who is liable? The best way to answer this question is to speak to a knowledgeable Plainfield, IL personal injury attorney.