Shortly before 3 p.m., cranes pulled the bus off of the freeway divider and left it upright on its wheels. The CHP said the diamond lanes in both directions would be blocked for at least eight hours. OAKLAND Four people were killed and several others injured in four separate wrong-way crashes on Bay Area highways over the weekend. Traffic jam on Highway 101 in South San Jose following a deadly Greyhound bus crash on January 19, 2016. PIX Now Sunday Morning Edition 4-23-23 10:43.
Several lanes of the highway in both directions were closed by the accident. The bus careened into safety barrels, flipped over and came to rest on the center divider. 'He stated that he did feel fatigued and that he did get some coffee in Gilroy when he dropped off two passengers,' CHP Officer Chris Miceli said, adding that the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The driver stopped for a caffeine jolt at the last stop before the wreck, about 30 miles south in Gilroy, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A few miles later, the accident happened. They base this off the fact that at one point during the trip from Los Angeles, she pulled over on the side of the freeway and tried to wake herself up a bit before continuing north. 'We're cooperating fully with local authorities on their investigation and conducting our own,' she said.ĬHP was not giving us a specific cause to the crash as of early Tuesday afternoon, but passengers KPIX 5 spoke to believe the driver may have fallen asleep just before crashing. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, Gipson said.