(Photo Courtesy: Boston Fire Dept.)
BOSTON (AP) — A charter bus carrying high school students from Pennsylvania crashed when it attempted to pass under a bridge in Boston on Saturday night, injuring more than 30 people, several seriously, and leaving some trapped inside for hours, authorities said.
The bus carrying 42 students and adult chaperones was coming from Harvard University and heading back to the Philadelphia area when it struck an overpass on Soldier’s Field Road, a major crosstown road, according to Massachusetts State Police.
Authorities said the Calvary Coach bus did not belong on that road and state police were investigating whether charges are warranted against the driver, who apparently failed to see a sign prohibiting the vehicle from taking that route.
A spokesman for the Philadelphia-based bus company had no immediate comment.
State police said at least 32 people were injured, including three seriously. Photos posted on the Fire Department’s twitter showed firefighters standing on the top of the bus using boards to extract people. The last victim was freed from the bus around 9 p.m., according to the department.
Soldiers Field Road curves along the Charles River and passes by Harvard and Boston University. It is a major roadway to the Massachusetts Turnpike.
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Is there a link to those photos mentioned in the article?
Boston media reports 42 on the bus.
How does this keep happening? How can they not know how tall their vehicle is????????? I pray the passengers will be alright
Neal: The pictures are on their Twitter feed. we have just updated the story to include a link to them.
Tina – I am quite certain they know how tall their buses are. The question remains how tall the overpass is. Many in this area are curved, and often the height posted is not the minimum but the maximum clearance. ” 14′ 6″ AT CENTER ” or such a wording. It’s most likely an out-of-town driver would misinterpret such a sign, and I have always felt we should post minimum clearances only. But this is also just supposition; we shall have to await the findings of the investigation.
Smooth Move Exlax!
I had just left a Tastefully Simple Conference in Boston with part of my TS family a few hours before that. That’s nuts!
@Pittman you should be a sit down comedian.
The unemployment rate in Philly just went up by 1.