A pedestrian was struck and killed on Monday morning in Boston's South End neighborhood, police say. The vehicle involved was a Boston University shuttle bus, according to NBC10 Boston. Boston police received a report of a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian in the area of the BU Medical Campus at 744 Albany St. around 7:58 a.m. Officers found that the pedestrian was trapped beneath the bus, and they were later pronounced dead at the scene.
A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed on Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people onboard to the hospital, officials said. Twenty-five Aliquippa junior high students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. The Economy Borough police chief, Michael O'Brien, said he didn't have information on the medical status of those taken to hospitals.
Five people were killed and many were injured when a tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people on board crashed and rolled on its side on an interstate highway, authorities said. A police spokesman said the bus left the road on a highway about 40km (25 miles) east of the northern city of Buffalo on Friday.