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Five people miraculously escaped with only minor injuries when a city bus slammed into a Hamilton Heights building early Friday after getting into an accident with a minivan, authorities said.
The incident occurred around 7:38 a.m. this morning, Fire Department sources said.
It began when the minivan attempted to cut in front of the bus when the two hit one another, then jumped the curb , an MTA spokesman said. The bus then slammed into 3750 Broadway near W. 155th St.
A China Spring man is dead and four others are injured after a two car crash. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident happened Friday at 11:42 p.m. A 2005 Mini Cooper collided head-on with a 2011 Chevy HHR, on the southbound frontage road of Highway 6, just south of McLaughlin Rd. The driver of the Mini Cooper, 42-year-old John Bumgardner, failed to yield as the Chevy HHR was legally trying to enter Highway 6, says Wilson. Bumgardner was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two drivers died when a 91-year-old man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 near the Florida-Georgia border late Friday night stuck an SUV and a Greyhound bus. Troopers said a 91-year-old driver was diving south in the northbound lanes when they ran head-on into the bus and a Ford Expedition at mile marker 449, about 10 miles south of Jasper in Hamilton County. The car's driver, Ernest Lee Holmes, 91, from High Springs, Florida was killed in the accident, according to the FHP report. Peter Linek, 55, of Ormond Beach, who was driving the SUV also died.