Tuesday, February 25, 2014

I had that nightmare...

No sign of brake failure in bus that crashed into Idaho Power headquarters
See the dash cam video: the bus was traveling north on South 13th Street shortly before 6:30 a.m. when, at Grove Street, it veered right to avoid a pickup truck ahead of it. The bus jumped the curb and crashed through at least one traffic sign post, five trees and two light poles in the Idaho Power parking lot. The bus continued across Main Street and slammed into a pillar at the base of the nine-story office building.

An investigator who reviewed all the video from the bus said in the crash report that the bus driver appeared to be very drowsy and closed his eyes for short periods of time before the crash.
“It also appeared that the driver had nodded off (eyes closed) while going north on 13th from the time he passed across Front until right before he came upon the pickup truck in front of him,” the investigator wrote in the ITD report.
Luckily nobody was seriously injured or killed.