Deadly New Mexico Bus Crash Prompts Negligence Claims

A firefighter at the scene of the collision of a semitrailer that crossed the median of Interstate 40 and crashed head-on into a Greyhound bus near Thoreau on Aug. 30, 2018. Brandon N. Sanchez/Gallup Independent via AP
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A California-based trucking company and one of its drivers were accused of negligence Friday in a pair of lawsuits as investigators sorted through the wreckage from a deadly bus crash on a New Mexico highway. Eight people were killed and 25 injured, including three young children.

The Greyhound bus carrying nearly 50 people was headed west along Interstate 40 on Thursday when a semitrailer going in the opposite direction lost the tread on its left front tire and veered across a median and smashed into the bus, police said.