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Al Arabiya
a day ago
- Al Arabiya
Police: 4 dead in a San Antonio crash involving a bus and a stolen vehicle
A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35, and two died at a hospital, police said. Another 16 people received treatment for their injuries. Several people fled the stolen Camaro without stopping to help, including at least one who was armed, police said. Police Chief William McManus said children and older people were among the injured. The Camaro struck a trailer attached to the bus, causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle, which then bounced into a guardrail. A tractor-trailer then smashed into the bus, which rolled onto its side. Several people were ejected from the bus, police said. Police said the people who fled the Camaro have not been located or identified.
The Independent
a day ago
- The Independent
Police: 4 dead in a San Antonio crash involving a bus and a stolen vehicle
A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35 and two died at a hospital, police said. Another 16 people received treatment for their injuries. Several people fled the stolen Camaro without stopping to help, including at least one who was armed, police said. Police Chief William McManus said children and older people were among the injured. The Camaro struck a trailer attached to the bus, causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle, which then bounced into a guardrail. A tractor-trailer then smashed into the bus, which rolled onto its side. Several people were ejected from the bus, police said. Police said the people who fled the Camaro have not been located or identified.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Daily Mail
Shocking revelations from people who narrowly survived near-fatal encounters
From being swept away by powerful riptides to narrowly dodging falling trees, people are sharing the terrifying moments they nearly came face-to-face with death. It began after someone asked on Reddit, 'People who escaped death by complete luck. What happened?' The post received over 1,600 comments from users who were eager to tell their stories. One person recounted how they narrowly avoided being hit by a driver who had lost consciousness while they were out on their moped. They said: 'I was 16 in Bermuda, riding my moped into town when I came up to a bus stopped at a red light. 'I came to a stop, and then, as is tradition, I scooted around the bus to be at the front of the traffic. 'No more than 10 seconds later, a second bus plowed into the back of the first bus at 30-40 mph. 'I would have been pancaked, no question, had I not moved. Apparently, the second bus driver had a medical event and lost consciousness. 'I just sat on the side of the road for 30 minutes afterward and looked at the trees, contemplating my mortality.' Another person revealed a shooting took place at the mall they worked at but they had been running late that day so they weren't there. They detailed: 'Worked at my local mall while in college. I've always prided myself on never being late. 'I was going in early to go to my bank, which was at the main entrance. A series of ridiculous events began, and I found myself running late, which really frustrated me. 'Again, it rarely, if ever, happened. I drove quickly to find police cars flying past me. As I approached the mall, I saw the cops swarming the main entrance, where I was headed. 'Turns out, a woman had entered the main entrance with a rifle and began shooting as she entered, and continued as she walked through the mall. She killed three and wounded seven, some critically. 'No doubt I would have been in the line of fire had I not been late. She spent decades in jail and was recently released.' Someone else recalled a harrowing and life threatening incident that occurred when they were younger. 'A street light collapsed on me (my neck) and onto the face of the girl in front of me on a 5th-grade field trip,' they wrote. 'I was surprisingly fine, while the girl in front of me got helicoptered out. She made a full recovery, though!' One user shared the time they had a tree fall on them. 'I was two steps away from being crushed by the trunk. Paramedics made sure to tell me that while I was sitting there with a flap of skin hanging off my scalp,' they said. 'Like, thanks, dude, for pointing out I almost died while I was already in shock.' Another person recalled almost dying after they decided to play in a power station as a child. 'Back in the year 2000, seven-year-old me and my friends were outside exploring. That day's location happened to be a power station,' they shared. 'An older nine-year-old boy lost his life on top of a machine. The electricity burned a hole through him. 'I lost both my hands trying to climb up and help him. Amputated below my elbows. 'Electricity went through both my arms and exited in my armpit on one side and my neck on the other side. It never went through my chest, or I'd be dead, too.' Someone else shared a near-kidnapping story that occurred when they were 10 years old. 'When I was a naive 10-year-old, a guy in a s***ty car asked me to hop in and help him find his lost puppy,' they recalled. 'My dumb**s was about to get in when my little brother happened to ride by on a bike and started screaming. He probably saved my life that day.' Another warned about swimming at the beach, as they wrote: 'Was swimming at an Australian beach, stupidly not between the flags, got smacked by a rogue wave and was stuck in a riptide. I was knocked out cold and pretty much drowned. 'Still, to this day, I don't know how I got to shore, when I woke I was up on the wet sand of the beach and had 5 jellyfish around me.' A different user shared their near-death experience that happened at work: 'Sudden cardiac [arrest] at work. A co-worker gave me CPR and paramedics got my heart beating again. Five percent survival rate. I ate a lot more ice cream once I was healthy, again.' One commenter wrote: 'I was in the passenger seat of my dad's small sports car (low to the ground) when a crowbar came off a work truck in front of us and flew into the windshield of our car. 'Somehow it stopped a few inches away from my face, and I luckily happened to be looking down, which meant all the glass that would have ended up on my face was all in my hair instead. 'I always think about how lucky I was, I can't explain why that crowbar stopped half in and half out of the car. Crazy to think that if it didn't stop, it would have hit me square in the forehead.' Someone else revealed their close encounter with serial killer Ted Bundy. 'My frat bro's mom was in the Chi Omega house at FSU in 1979. Ted Bundy broke into the house while they were sleeping and killed the two girls in the room across the hall from hers and seriously beat up two other women,' they wrote.
South China Morning Post
07-07-2025
- South China Morning Post
Cyclist injured after Hong Kong tour bus loses control, crashes into road dividers
A cyclist has been injured after a tour bus lost control and hit road divider fences in Hong Kong's Sha Tin. Advertisement According to police, the cyclist reported the traffic accident at the junction of Fo Tan Road and Tai Chung Kiu Road at around 6.08am on Monday. The 48-year-old sustained injuries to his face and hands and was sent to a nearby hospital, while the bus driver, 63, was unharmed. A dashcam video circulating online showed that the bus was turning right onto Fo Tan Road from Tai Chung Kiu Road. It hit the fences on the left side of Fo Tan Road before veering into those in the middle. The front part of the blue bus was severely damaged, with its glass scattered around and lights detached, according to another video. Advertisement The affected roads were temporarily closed for several hours, leading to traffic congestion. The scene was cleared by around 10am.
Irish Times
26-05-2025
- Irish Times
Fionnuala Ward on witnessing a racist incident on a bus
Fionnuala Ward I witnessed the aftermath of a racist incident on the bus the other day. That's when I'd managed to pull myself out of my phone and take note of what was going on. The bus is where all life coalesces but for the most part it's life on the margins: immigrants, students, older people, poorer people and a mish-mash of everyone else. I don't have a car. I've never had a car so the bus is my lifeline. Anyway, us passengers, we spend our time looking downwards, always downwards, scrolling, scrolling. I should say, as this is a story about skin colour, that I'm white. The kind of white that gets sun-burned really easily. That kind of white. READ MORE It was the shouting that prompted me to look up. Some guys, brown guys from possibly a Middle-Eastern background, were shouting up to the bus driver from the bottom of the stairs or so it seemed. I couldn't quite make it out. But my initial reaction was to hope, really, really hope that whatever was happening would just go away and we all could go back to ignoring each other. The driver, who was white, seemed sympathetic and supportive but I couldn't figure out why or about what. And then a young woman came down the stairs, to the accompaniment of a male voice berating her for not being from here or not belonging here or something equally edifying. The guys from a Middle-Eastern background advised the woman to stay near the front. As did the bus driver. 'Up here,' he said in a reassuring voice. The woman stared up the stairs and shouted something in the general direction of the angry, disembodied voice. But did as advised. She wasn't black. She wasn't brown. She was white in a Mediterranean or North African way. Maybe. Perhaps. The woman sitting beside me glanced over to get my attention. She was brown and wearing a head covering. She gave me a concerned, almost frightened look. I smiled and shrugged and tried to communicate that things would settle down. Looking back now, maybe she had recognised what was going on way before me. Maybe she had experienced something similar at another time. Regardless, she left her seat and disappeared out the door. There were now people coming and going in the centre aisle and it was hard to figure out where the woman from the stairs had gone. And then I saw her. A woman, a young, white woman, was offering reassurance. 'We're all with you,' she said before heading down towards the back. I got out of my seat and approached her myself. I asked if she was ok. She said she just didn't like having to deal with 'that', gesturing towards the top level. 'We are all with you', I found myself saying, hoping that it didn't sound too inauthentic the second time around. By now, the bus had come to a halt, having pulled in between stops. Some people got off. Others tried to get on but the bus driver, calmly asked them to wait. 'Not too long,' he said. And moments later, checking his mirror, he exclaimed 'Ah, he's here'. It was a guard, in all that yellow and white Garda reflective gear. 30-ish, white, well-built. The driver directed him upstairs. Minutes later, a character straight out of central casting descended the stairs – stocky, thuggish, possibly drunk, white and protesting - with the garda coming along behind. The man turned in the centre aisle as if to make an announcement but the garda was having none of it. He pushed him forward and out the front door. The young woman raised a middle finger as exited the bus. The people waiting on the footpath were given the go-ahead and the bus pulled away. And that was that except it wasn't. The young woman and I got off at the same stop. She thanked the bus driver for his help on the way out and they exchanged kind words. We were heading in the same direction. I wished her well. 'But you have to say something,' she said, touching my arm. 'You can't just sit there. You have to say something." So she was the witness. The racial abuse had been directed at those guys who'd advised her to stay up near the front. She'd defended them somehow and got caught up in the incoherent ramblings of the thug upstairs. So, some guys on a bus were going about their business. A thirtysomething male assailed them for no reason. A young woman defended them. A calm, competent bus driver got involved and a guard came on board and got rid of the problem. And then we all went back on our phones.
