Greenwood, IN — Eighteen people were injured in a Megabus accident in Greenwood, Indiana, on Monday, October 13, 2014. The accident happened on I-65, near mile marker 98.
Reports say that the driver of a 2003 Saturn wasn’t paying attention to the road and veered into a cable barrier. The car came to a stop with it’s rear end sitting on the interstate. The Megabus crashed into the car and rolled over into the median.
In all, 18 people were injured in the accident. Twelve of those people were from Indiana. Their names were given as…
- Rosetta Sullivan – 44
- Valerie (no surname given) – 41
- Lennel S. Sorrels – 33
- Dina Allen – 43
- Manu Misra – 30
- Vanessa Akons – 49
- Andre Lindsey – 25
- Angela Mithell – 49
- Tatianna Johnson – 19
- Mattie Johnson – no age given
- Shanice Joyner – 19
- Krystal Akons – 44
The names of the other six victims were given as…
- Hong Thu Le – 20
- Paul Blackman – 23
- Logan Thompson – 22
- Melvan Beamer – 29
- Stacy Melson – 46
- Mashour Hamad M. Alqahtan – 30
The most serious injury reported from those on the bus was a broken arm. The victims were taken to Eskenazi Hospital, IU Health Methodist Hospital, and Johnson County Memorial Hospital.
So far, there’s been no word on the driver of the car that caused the accident. Police are continuing to investigate.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary
News reports say that when police arrived on the scene of the accident, they expected to find only the car. Instead, they also found the bus that had crashed into it. This tells us that the first accident occurred, someone who witnessed it called 911, and while the police were on their way, the bus came along and crashed into their car. This rules out the possibility that the bus was traveling too closely to the car, and crashed into it immediately after the initial accident. A few other things to keep in mind: This accident happened around 4:30 in the morning. Also, there are no streetlights along this strip of the interstate. So it’s dark, and visibility isn’t going to be as good as it would have been in the middle of the afternoon. So, if the bus is driving along at interstate speeds, and if the bus’s headlights only give the driver visibility up to a couple of hundred feet at most, he’s going to have a very short amount of time to react once he sees the car in the road. Is it possible the bus driver wasn’t paying close enough attention? Yes. Is it possible he took improper evasive maneuvers? It’s possible. However, given the time of day at which this happened, it’s just as likely that the car will find itself liable for the accident.
— Grossman Law Offices
