The passengers are paying for these entire reckless bus driver actions through fare increase and the bus driver are getting away with murder. While these bus companies are harboring murders that are operating a large weapon that can cause an innocent person their lives as the Prosecutor detectives write it off as an accident. It is sad that the politicians, bus companies, detective treats the victims live as no value. The victims cannot go back to their family but the bus drivers can. I believe is these bus driver know they were going to jail and serve some time, as well as, losing their jobs all these death will stop.
A $2.5 million settlement has been reached between NJ Transit and a Wayne motorcyclist who was critically injured in a 2011 crash involving three buses in the Lincoln Tunnel.
One NJ Transit bus rear-ended a second one, which, in turn, rear-ended Keith Nystrom, now 49, pinning him and his motorcycle against the bus ahead of him before he was then thrown under the forward bus and trapped. Fifty-four passengers were also injured, 14 of them seriously, according to published accounts at the time of the accident.
“Mr. Nystrom was literally pinned under the bus. It was a pretty gruesome story as to his rescue and recovery,” said attorney Daniel M. Hurley of Brick Township and Toms River, representing Nystrom in a civil suit against NJ Transit that was settled Tuesday before state Superior Court Judge Thomas J. La Conte in Paterson.
“They had to put air mattresses under the bus, in order to extract him. It’s a miracle he survived. It was six months before he was able to walk,” Hurley said Thursday by phone.
The settlement still must be approved by NJ Transit’s board of directors, according to officials. That is expected to occur within 45 days, Hurley said.
Nystrom underwent four surgeries for two broken legs and a fractured arm and required a chest tube while he was hospitalized, according to Hurley. Nystrom has no use of his left hand and limited use of his left arm because of nerve damage resulting from his injuries, and walks with a slight limp, according to his lawyer.
He worked for JP Morgan at the time as a computer associate and continues in that job, though he has since been transferred to Houston, Hurley said. Nystrom, who could not be reached for comment Thursday, is married and has four children.
While Hurley admitted that Nystrom was shouldn’t have been in the bus lane, the suit alleged that the first bus driver in the chain of collisions, who was traveling a proper speed of about 35 mph, never put his foot on the brake prior to impact. Hurley said the driver has admitted that. “He was a distracted driver allegedly looking in his right rear view mirror and never saw the bus in front of him stop,” Hurley said.
Attorney Thomas Lenney of Union, representing NJ Transit in the case, declined to comment.
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