Bus Overturns on Wet Road in N.Y.; 31 Injured
A Greyhound bus overturned Saturday, injuring 31 people, after the driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, a sheriff’s deputy said.
The bus, en route to Buffalo from New York City, turned over on a rain-slickened road in Caroline, about 10 miles southeast of Ithaca, said Tompkins County sheriff’s dispatcher Jeff Mead.
“It appears that from speaking to the individuals on the bus that the driver fell asleep several times on the way up and then he finally just fell asleep and lost control of the bus,” sheriff’s deputy John Payne said.
Thirty-one of the 38 people aboard were injured, including the driver. None of the injuries were critical.
Six passengers, including two children ages 12 and 6, were admitted to hospitals for injuries, officials said. All were reported in satisfactory or good condition.
Carlos Adorno, 27, the driver, of Washington, D.C., was charged with reckless driving, unsafe lane change and not keeping his log book up to date, Mead said.
Adorno has been a Greyhound driver for two months, a spokesman said. The company’s union drivers have been on strike since March, 1990.
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