p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 1 这个报导会不会太惊人了。。。。
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:57:00 AM EDT
NYC bus driver's trail before fatal crash probed
Photo: AP
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators worked Tuesday to piece together the
trail of a man with numerous traffic violations and a decades-old
manslaughter conviction who crashed a tour bus over the weekend in New
York City, killing 15 people.
The bus driver, Ophadell Williams, was ticketed in 1995 for speeding and
twice for driving without a license, giving police the alias Erik
Williams, two state officials familiar with the accident probe told The
Associated Press on Monday. Williams' driving privileges were suspended,
meaning he couldn't legally drive in the state, after he failed to
address the charges.
The bus crash occurred Saturday as gamblers were returning to New York
City's Chinatown neighborhood, in downtown Manhattan, after a few hours
at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn. The bus was sheared in
half by a sign pole.
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On Monday night, another company's luxury tour bus from Chinatown to
Philadelphia crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, killing the driver and
a passenger. About 40 people were hospitalized.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said they were
looking at Williams' last 72 hours before the Saturday crash, checking
the casino's surveillance video.
"We want to know what he ate, what he drank and how much he slept," NTSB
vice chairman Christopher Hart said.
Investigators zeroed in on the 40-year-old Williams' record after his
story that his tour bus was clipped by a tractor-trailer fell apart when
passengers and witnesses said it never happened.
Investigators are trying to follow Williams' steps by matching Social
Security numbers of traffic stops under different names, the officials
said, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the investigation. Williams also had an incomplete log
book, which is required for commercial drivers, the officials said.
The revelations about Williams, who has a 20-year-old manslaughter
conviction, prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to launch a state investigation
into how Williams was able to hold a valid commercial driver's license
at the time of Saturday's crash.
Telephone calls to Williams' Brooklyn home were unanswered Monday. A
spokesman for the bus company that employed him, World Wide Travel,
declined to comment, on the instructions of federal investigators.
Williams was convicted of crimes using two aliases. He served just more
than two years for manslaughter for his role in a stabbing in 1990,
state correction records show. He initially had been charged with
second-degree murder.
Williams served about three years, from 1998 to the middle of 2002, for
grand larceny for removing an $83,905 check from a Police Athletic
League fund, correctional services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.
He also was arrested by New York City police on June 4, 2003, for
driving with a suspended license and for possession of three police
radios. In 1987, he was arrested on charges of trying to get on public
transportation without paying.
There are no federal regulations that would prohibit states from issuing
a license to a bus driver with a criminal record, said Duane DeBruyne, a
spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Hart, the NTSB vice chairman, said the bus and the tractor-trailer had
black box-like engine control modules that might have stored
information. He said the module from the bus had been sent to the NTSB
lab in Washington, D.C., for downloading; the tractor-trailer was
impounded.
Hart identified the owner of the tractor-trailer as Webster Trucking
Company of Connecticut and Massachusetts and said it was cooperating.
He said officials were bringing in extra equipment to inspect the left
front side of the bus to check the driver's account.
State police have identified all but two of the victims. Officials said
most were of Chinese descent.
Sai Ling, 57, lost her parents, Kam and Yuk Ng, in the crash. She said
her father, a former cook, had gone to the casinos for many years, but
her mother, a retired garment worker, had begun to accompany him in the
last few months after her sister died.
"He didn't want to see her crying every day," Ling said.
Ling said her parents had lived in the U.S. for 30 years and left seven
grandchildren.
"This bus driver took their lives," she said. "They were in good health.
They expected to live another 10 years."
The casino has a lounge for bus drivers with coffee, soda, snacks and
televisions, Mohegan Sun President Jeff Hartmann said. He said he did
not know whether Williams was in the lounge before the trip.
"We don't keep track of them. They're on their own," he told the AP.
He said the casino was cooperating with police.
The bus was one of scores that travel daily between Chinatown and the
casinos in southeastern Connecticut. The Mohegan Sun caters to Chinese-
American gamblers and has estimated that one-fifth of its business comes
from Asian spending. Hartmann said 44,000 buses visit the casino
annually from around the region.
Williams, who was released from a hospital Sunday, was at home Monday
but did not appear outside. His friend and neighbor Francisco Rivera
said he was a safe driver.
"I think something else happened. ... I've been in a car with him
several times and I've never seen him drive crazy ... or swerve," Rivera
said.
He said there was a death in Williams' family this year and a younger
brother was lost "to the streets."
"And now this happens to him," he said. "Everybody's just messed up in
the family right now." | m*******y
发帖数: 14292 | 2 我当时报纸 一看名字不是中国人 就想 该不会是非裔吧 | p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 3 嗯。是的。
【在 m*******y 的大作中提到】
: 我当时报纸 一看名字不是中国人 就想 该不会是非裔吧
| R***Z
发帖数: 1167 | 4 参加过一次华人旅行团,司机也是非裔,不过看上去还挺nice，不像有前科的
【在 m*******y 的大作中提到】
: 我当时报纸 一看名字不是中国人 就想 该不会是非裔吧
| k*****a
发帖数: 7389 | 5 on tv news, 司机's black neighbors all siad he's a hero, saved people from
fire twice, blah blah blah..... | k********a
发帖数: 7225 | | p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 7 只能说，人真的有很多面。
from
【在 k*****a 的大作中提到】
: on tv news, 司机's black neighbors all siad he's a hero, saved people from
: fire twice, blah blah blah.....
| p***y
发帖数: 18037 | 8 呵呵。的确。
【在 k********a 的大作中提到】
: 生活比美剧更狗血
| m*******y
发帖数: 14292 | 9 没错
【在 p***y 的大作中提到】
: 只能说，人真的有很多面。
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