New York Bus Accident : Lawyer News Update

Governor Cuomo's director of State Operations, Howard Glaser reported that the DMV has since suspended Williams driving privileges. State officials claim Williams obtained his license by giving false statements & aliases to conceal his true driver's license. The DMV reported they were combing their records to select the exact number of aliases Williams used historicallyin the past.

New York City (New York Personal Injury News) - In an update to the historicallyin the past reported article New York City Bus Accident Lawyer News: 13 Dead, 19 Injured, the driver of the bus that overturned was operating the vehicle under a fraudulent license. The news about Ophadel William's false statements that got to the New York Department of Motor Vehicles was reported by the New York Every day News on Thursday, March 17, 2011.

According to reports, Williams driving privileges were already suspended under the alias of Eric Williams, a name they gave police in the work of one stops that occurred within 8 days in 1995. When the incidents occurred, Williams told the officers they did not have his license with him.

While preliminary reports said that 13 people aboard the World Wide Travel tour bus were killed, the number has since risen to 15. Williams initially claimed that they lost control of the vehicle after the tour bus was sideswiped by a tractor-trailer rig.

Passengers later reported that Williams fell asleep at the wheel before the bus tipped on I-95, skidding in to a freeway sign near the Hutchinson River Parkway.

World Wide Tours was recently under fire by federal regulators for issues involving fatigued drivers. But, the company's overall safety record still remains satisfactory,according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

This is the second major bus accident to happen in New York in the last five months. On Sept. 11, 2010, a double-decker Megabus travelling from Philadelphia to Toronto ran in to a low railway bridge on the Onondaga Lake Parkway in Salina. Five people were killed & five others were seriously injured in the bus wreck. Jonathan C. Reiter, Esq., an attorney who represents the relatives of one of the passengers killed in the Salina, New York Megabus crash, reports there is an ongoing police inquiry by the Onondaga Sheriff's Department & the District Attorney's office to select whether criminal charges ought to be brought against the bus driver and/or Megabus in connection with that crash.