The National Transportation Safety Board said in June that the accident was probably cancun hotel district map caused by driver fatigue, and a bus company that provided too little safety oversight. It stopped short of saying Williams had fallen cancun hotel district map asleep.
The World Wide Travel bus ran off Interstate 95 at daybreak as it was returning to Manhattan's Chinatown from an overnight trip to the Mohegan Sun casino cancun hotel district map in Uncasville, Conn. The crash killed 15 people, mostly Chinese men and women over the age of 40 who were regulars at casinos.
Williams said that a tractor-trailer had cut him off, and that's cancun hotel district map why he swerved and hit the guardrail. But investigators could find no indication that had occurred. His attorneys have said he was awake and alert, and he's wracked with guilt over the crash, but not guilty of any crimes.
The bus was traveling at speeds up to 78 mph in a 50 mph zone until seconds before it ran off the road, skittered along a highway guardrail, toppled over and crashed into the support pole for a highway sign. The pole sliced through the bus front to back along the window line, shearing off the roof.
But on July 4 this year, another casino bus went out of control 2 miles up the road from the March 2011 accident, sending 24 people to the hospital with minor injuries. The bus was on an early morning route from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut to Chinatown in Queens in the rain when it struck cancun hotel district map a center median barrier on Interstate 95 in New Rochelle, veered right over three lanes, then slid about 500 feet along an outer barrier before stopping.
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