Officials: Passaic man among 3 men killed in Greyhound crash in Illinois
The Madison County coroner says that Juan Vasquez-Rodriguez, of Passaic, died when the bus crashed on Interstate 70 in Highland, Illinois.
Officials say that a New Jersey man was among three men killed in a Greyhound bus crash in Illinois on Wednesday.
The Madison County coroner says that Juan Vasquez-Rodriguez, of Passaic, died when the bus crashed on Interstate 70 in Highland.
Two other people were killed and more than a dozen others were seriously injured.
Police say that the bus was headed from Indianapolis to St. Louis when it hit three commercial vehicles parked on the exit ramp to a rest stop.
The vehicle was equipped with cameras facing both inward and outward, and their video will be analyzed, National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said. He added that the 2014-model bus had seatbelts.
A team of NTSB investigators is expected to be on-site for up to six days, and Chapman said the trucks' presence on the ramp “will be a part of this investigation.”
A GoFundMe page was set up to raise money to help the family of Vasquez-Rodriguez transport his body to Peru. A family friend who set it up, Gabriela Benitez, wrote in Spanish that Vasquez-Rodriguez left Peru “looking for a future and a better future for his entire family. There are no words to comfort at a time like this and that is why financial aid would help them alleviate the great sorrow a little.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
