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Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 15:53:45 2014 Tour bus crash |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 16:15:26 2014, in response to Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 15:53:45 2014. Anybody have more on this? |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Hart Bus on Tue Aug 5 18:53:33 2014, in response to Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 16:15:26 2014. From what I found as of 6:50 PM, 13 injuries, one life threatening. A Gray Line sightseeing bus (#71505), crashed into the back of a CitySights bus (no number visible).No mention of any traffic detours. |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 19:04:03 2014, in response to Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Hart Bus on Tue Aug 5 18:53:33 2014. Thanks! |
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videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Tue Aug 5 21:49:11 2014, in response to Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 15:53:45 2014. |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Tue Aug 5 23:51:14 2014, in response to Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Hart Bus on Tue Aug 5 18:53:33 2014. CitySights bus is 882. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by SJP7121 on Wed Aug 6 03:53:58 2014, in response to videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Gold_12th on Tue Aug 5 21:49:11 2014. That Earthcam video. Wow. That could of been a LOT worse. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 07:16:30 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by SJP7121 on Wed Aug 6 03:53:58 2014. The driver of the red double decker is arrested and I'm assuming charged for driver under impaired. 58 year old driver was high on drugs said the media |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Aug 6 08:31:20 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 07:16:30 2014. If that's true, oh my!!! |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Railbus63 on Wed Aug 6 08:55:42 2014, in response to Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by R36 #9346 on Tue Aug 5 23:51:14 2014. Converted New Flyer D40LF. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Aug 6 10:59:43 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 07:16:30 2014. If anyone is to blame---it would have been that driver, given that this was a rear-ender. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Aug 6 11:54:30 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Aug 6 10:59:43 2014. The first question you have to consider is brake failure. After all, those buses are not the best maintained.But as it turns out, the driver was impaired, according to a report I saw on Ch. 7 EWN earlier. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Aug 6 13:10:24 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Aug 6 11:54:30 2014. We will await the official report. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:02:43 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Aug 6 11:54:30 2014. mechanics reported no brake failure. |
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Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:03:37 2014, in response to Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 15:53:45 2014.  The double-decker tour bus driver who slammed into another bus and injured 14 people in Times Square on Tuesday was under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash, cops said. William Dalambert, of Irvington, N.J., was arrested and charged early Wednesday with driving while ability impaired after failing blood and urine tests, which revealed he was on some type of narcotic at the time of the crash, cops said. Dalambert insisted that he crashed the bus because of a brake failure, but inspectors said the bus checked out with no mechanical problems. Dalambert crashed into another bus near the TKTS discount Broadway tickets booth at the corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, knocking over a traffic light that injured several pedestrians. It was not immediately known what type of drugs the driver was taking. Dalambert was awaiting arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court. Gray Line and City Sights tour buses are inspected twice a year by the state DOT. They passed inspection in April. http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/bus-driver-in-times-square-double-decker-crash-arrested/ |
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Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:09:03 2014, in response to Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:03:37 2014. The double-decker tour bus driver who slammed into another bus and injured 14 people in Times Square Tuesday while allegedly high on drugs has had his drivers license suspended 20 times, officials said.William Dalambert’s struggle to retain his license dates back more than two decades when he first lost lost it in 1993, according to a spokeswoman at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles. Nine of his suspensions were for driving an unregistered vehicle; four were for unspecified violations; two were for not having insurance; two were for not filing paperwork properly and three were over unpaid child support, according to the spokeswoman. His most recent suspension was in Nov. 2013. Dalambert, who had a valid license at the time of the crash, was arrested and charged early Wednesday with driving while ability impaired. A drug recognition expert gave the 58-year-old driver a sobriety test at the scene, which he failed, and he later agreed to submit to a blood and urine test. The results of those tests were still pending Wednesday afternoon and it remains unclear what type of drugs he may have been on. The allegations of Dalambert’s possible drug use shocked his estranged wife, who said she has been worried sick since hearing he was behind the wheel during Tuesday’s crash. “He doesn’t take drugs, so I don’t know what happened to him,” said a distraught Yma Dalambert. “I saw the accident on the TV. I am very scared for him.” “He has no problems I know of,” she added. “He’s been driving a long time.” Dalambert’s supervisor said the veteran driver had just begun his shift before he crashed the double-decker Gray Line bus he was driving into a parked City Sights double-decker near the TKTS discount Broadway ticket booth at the corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue around 3:30 p.m. His bus then jumped the curb and knocked over a traffic light that injured several pedestrians. Dalambert insisted that he crashed the bus because of a brake failure but inspectors said the bus checked out with no mechanical problems. Gray Line and City Sights tour buses are inspected twice a year by the state Department of Transportation. They passed inspection in April. http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/bus-driver-in-times-square-double-decker-crash-arrested/ |
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Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV |
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Posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 22:44:27 2014, in response to Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:09:03 2014. Ummm 20 times seems a lot to question if he's fit to drive a passenger bus. |
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Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV |
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Posted by fset on Wed Aug 6 22:45:43 2014, in response to Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV, posted by Gold_12th on Wed Aug 6 16:09:03 2014. Hey the train operator of the MetroNorth had taken Chlortrimiton tabs, and that makes you sleepy. This driver need only have taken some allergy meds and it would have shown in the tox screenbing |
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Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV |
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Posted by kcram3500 on Thu Aug 7 08:23:01 2014, in response to Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV, posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 22:44:27 2014. Most of the suspensions were for paperwork or child support (16 of the 20) - we would need to see his abstract regarding tickets of moving violations to know his driving prowess. |
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Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by SJP7121 on Thu Aug 7 10:47:42 2014, in response to Re: videos: (Gray Line vs. CitySights) Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by Flxible4life on Wed Aug 6 07:16:30 2014. If that's true, thank God no one was killed. WTF was he thinking?!?!?! Was he even thinking?!?!?!?!?! |
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Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV |
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Posted by TheHat on Thu Aug 7 18:45:24 2014, in response to Re: Driver of Times Square bus had license suspended 20 times: DMV, posted by fset on Wed Aug 6 22:45:43 2014. Not entirely...§40.85 What drugs do laboratories test for? As a laboratory, you must test for the following five drugs or classes of drugs in a DOT drug test. You must not test “DOT specimens” for any other drugs. (a) Marijuana metabolites. (b) Cocaine metabolites. (c) Amphetamines. (d) Opiate metabolites. (e) Phencyclidine (PCP). |
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Driver Cleared of Wrong Doing....Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by heypaul on Wed Oct 22 22:38:42 2014, in response to Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Aug 5 15:53:45 2014. The driver of the sightseeing bus that crashed into the rear of another bus has been cleared of any wrong doing and is now being credited with trying to steer the bus away from the crowds.Driver Vindicated |
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Re: Driver Cleared of Wrong Doing....Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th |
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Posted by SubwaySurf on Thu Oct 23 17:51:18 2014, in response to Driver Cleared of Wrong Doing....Re: Tour bus Crash -NYC -47th and 7th, posted by heypaul on Wed Oct 22 22:38:42 2014. Good for him. Everyone was so quick to accuse him. I hope he sues, for defamation of character, and wins a substantial claim. |
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