# When buses collide: Fatal accident in Newark, NJ

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 20, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-buses-collide-fatal-accident-in-newark-nj/763427 "2016-08-20T19:14:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-buses-collide-fatal-accident-in-newark-nj/763427/1 "2016-08-20T19:14:18Z")

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[Story here](http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/08/hard-working_newark_woman_idd_as_second_victim_in.html). Two people dead, and horrendous damage.

The one bus that was T-boned by the other, which ran a red light, was literally torn in half.

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**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-buses-collide-fatal-accident-in-newark-nj/763427/2 "2016-08-20T21:06:41Z")

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Ouch. The article mentions that maybe the driver of the bus that ran the red light (he died in the accident) might have had some kind of “medical emergency”. I guess that everything will have to wait for the autopsy results.

Really sad.