New jersey bus crash

Kaitlyn Kanzler North Jersey Record Published 12:38 PM EST Dec 13, 2018 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — An armored Brink's truck scattered money across New Jersey Route 3, causing delays as people got out of their cars to scoop up the cash fluttering around on the highway, witnesses say. East Rutherford police received calls at 8:30 a.m. EST that the bullet-resistant truck was spilling cash along the highway. A video posted on Twitter showed several people out of their cars, grabbing money while other cars were delayed or drove around them. The commotion caused multiple related crashes, police said. The training building that the New York Giants use is in the background of one video. ► March 3: Plot to steal $4M from armored vehicles ends with epic arrest► January 2017: Hundreds oppose parole for 1981 Brink's getaway driver► December 2016: How an Idaho football player robbed a Brink's truck Betsy Richards of Montclair, New Jersey, was on a NJ Transit bus into New … [Read more...] about Brink’s truck spills money on busy road during New Jersey rush hour

opinion The Editorial Board USA TODAY Published 5:06 PM EDT Oct 14, 2018 Seventeen friends and relatives headed to a brewery in Cooperstown, New York, for a birthday party and beer tasting. They did everything to make their celebration safe, even hiring a small bus to ensure that no one would get behind the wheel drunk. Everything went wrong anyway. The bus broke down and was replaced by a stretch limousine that had failed a safety inspection. The driver didn’t have the right "clearance" to operate with so many passengers. The route to the brewery crossed a notoriously dangerous intersection. When the limo blew through a stop sign and crashed into a parked car, all 17 friends, including four sisters, the driver and two pedestrians were killed. It  was the deadliest transportation accident since a 2009 plane crash killed 50. While New York state police and the National Transportation Safety Board continue to investigate the … [Read more...] about After New York limo crash, act before more celebrations turn deadly

Mike Snider USA TODAY Published 5:05 PM EDT Oct 8, 2018 The state of New York might have some of the nation's toughest regulations for limousines, but that still did not prevent the country's worst transportation accident in nearly a decade Saturday. All 18 people in an SUV limo and two pedestrians were killed when the vehicle crashed Saturday in upstate New York, about 160 miles north of New York City. The limo group, who were heading to a Cooperstown, New York, brewery for a surprise birthday party, originally rented a bus, but it broke down and the limousine was substituted. One of the passengers complained about the condition of the Ford Excursion limo in a text message to her mother shortly before the crash, The Washington Post reported. Any limousine operating in the state of New York must meet vehicle and driver's license regulations that are among the toughest in the nation, said Kevin Barwell, president of the Limousine, Bus, Taxi, Operators of … [Read more...] about New York limo crash: How are limousines, drivers regulated for safety