A state police investigation has determined that a Michigan truck driver had ample time to avoid rear-ending a slow-moving tour bus on an upstate New York highway but failed to brake and died in a fiery crash that injured more than 50 bus passengers.
The early morning crash in July happened when a Farr's Coach Lines bus traveling from Canada to New York merged back onto the New York State Thruway after pulling over for a mechanical problem.
It was hit by a Flint, Mich.-based tractor-trailer driven by Timothy Hume. The bus burst into flames and 59-year-old Hume was killed.
State police Investigator James Hunt tells The Associated Press that Hume could have fallen asleep or been distracted when he plowed into the bus.
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