I woke up yesterday
thinking this is sleeping weather. While I lay there listening to the
down pour of rain not wanting it hit me. I had too because I had so many
things to do. I turned on the news like I always do and heard that a
Greyhound bus had crashed. Among the injured and deceased was one man
seriously injured, nine others with minor injuries including the
driver and two women were killed. I could only imagine how the
passengers felt. To be so close to your destination after a long bus
ride and not to get there because of a crash is frightening.
At 6:38 a.m. on January
19, 2016 a Greyhound bus coming from Los Angeles crashes in San Jose.
The bus final destination was supposed to be Oakland. The roads were
wet from the down pour of rain when the Greyhound bus approached the
Highway 85 turnoff on northbound 101. A driver that was behind the
bus saw the bus change lanes. Then unexpectedly the bus struck the
impact barrels at the divider and landed on its side, the driver told
CHP Officers. Officer Chris Miceli with the Hollister-Gilroy CHP
office, said the Greyhound bus driver recalled "striking the
median barrier and then the next thing he remembered was the bus at
rest on its side and that's about all he could tell us." An
investigation into what happened is underway. The two women who died
were ejected out of the buses front window. According to CHP the bus
had seat belts. I wonder why the two women were not wearing seat
belts or were they and the belts failed?
What
this meant for the people who commuted from Hollister, Gilroy, Morgan
Hill and San Martin on highway 101 northbound? Serious delays on all
the connecting highways and roadways. I work for Streetwise Special
Delivery Courier Service out of Gilroy as a dispatcher and the driver
that was dispatched from Gilroy was delayed 2 hours for his pickups
and deliveries. All the other commuters decided to take alternate
routes and alternate routes were clogged as well.
My prayers go out to the
families of the two women who lost their lives and to the others who
were injured.
LM
