Roundup: four dead in Chinatown bus accident
A late-night Chinatown bus heading to New York City, a popular mode of travel for many Richmonders venturing to the Big Apple, overturned near the Carmel Church exit on Interstate 95 (about 30 miles north of Richmond) shortly before 5am about thirty miles north of Richmond. Police have confirmed that 4 are dead and dozens were injured.
A late-night Chinatown bus heading to New York City, a popular mode of travel for many Richmonders venturing to the Big Apple, overturned near the Carmel Church exit on Interstate 95 (about 30 miles north of Richmond) shortly before 5am about thirty miles north of Richmond. Police have confirmed that 4 are dead and dozens were injured. The bus company, SkyExpress, is based in North Carolina, and did not provide service to Richmond.
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They have $5M on file, hardly enough for 4 fatalities:
http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_carrquery.prc_getdetail
This is the safety overview:
http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/carrier.aspx?enc=FS754t38Xr9tbN2B3S7GmxuoDil4WjZ7imziQSprYp8=
The head blurb here reads that the Chinatown bus is a “popular mode of travel for many Richmonders” heading to NYC, but this carrier and bus are NC-based. I’m not sure they’ve ever stopped in Richmond, but they’re certainly not one of the ones that start/end their routes in Richmond. Clarification on that point may be helpful for those inclined to look at these articles and assume that it was one of the RVA Chinatown carriers.
This doesn’t, of course, mean that the RVA companies are necessarily any safer or better, just that they weren’t involved in or to blame for this particular incident.
We’ve gone ahead and made the clarification so to avoid any potential confusion