Credit: Boston Fire Department
Eleven Bucks County residents that were involved in a serious 2013 bus crash in Boston filed a lawsuit recently.
The plaintiffs on the suit that was filed in Boston are seeking $15 million. The owner of the bus company, bus driver Samuel J. Jackson of Philadelphia and GPS companies Garmin and TomTom are defendants in the suit.
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Philly.com reports the lawsuit makes the claim the GPS navigation system used by the driver of the bus did not give warnings about a height restriction on the bridge the bus struck in February 2013. The article notes the suit claims it the problem is “‘a well-known fact’” that this lack of warning had previously caused ‘numerous bridge strikes throughout the United States.’”
“GPS did not provide any warning on height restrictions, nor did it provide a warning that the device should not be used in commercial vehicle,” attorney Jim Ronca told CBSPhilly.com. Ronca represents 18-year-old Neshaminy High School student athlete Matthew Cruz, who is now paralyzed due to the crash.
The bus, filled with 43 passengers, was headed to the Destined for a Dream Foundation in Bristol Borough after a trip to Harvard University when it struck the concrete tunnel on Soliders Field Road at 7:34 p.m. on Saturday February 3, 2013.
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Students from Bristol, Harry S. Truman, Neshaminy and Pennsbury high schools were aboard the bus at the time of the accident.
