News reports state that a Greyhound bus crashed head-on into a semi-truck early on Friday morning in an accident on Interstate 40.
August 31, 2018 – A blown tire in a tractor-trailer caused the vehicle to plow into an oncoming Greyhound bus early Friday morning, leading to at least seven deaths and at least 12 injuries.
(Exact figures are not yet available.)
The tractor-trailer was flipped in the crash, which sheared off the front end of the Greyhound. Santos Soto III, the driver of the tractor-trailer, survived the crash and managed to take some video of the scene.
Bystanders and passengers were sobbing at the scene of the wreckage.
“I was really traumatized myself because I’ve been driving about two years and I had never seen anything like that before,” Soto said. “I’m a pretty strong person, and I broke down and cried for at least 30 minutes.”
Witnesses on the scene reported that it was an awe-inspiring, terrible sight.
Greyhound reported that the bus was headed from Albuquerque to Phoenix at the time of the crash. Greyhound spokeswoman Crystal Booker said that the company would fully cooperate with local authorities and conduct an investigation of their own.
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