Inattention causes driver to hit GTA bus, GCSO says
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 week AGO
The Grant County Sheriff's Office issued a citation to a driver after he reportedly ran his truck into a bus due to inattention.
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MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man received a traffic citation Tuesday night after he T-boned a Grant Transit Authority bus near the scene of a previous collision on Patton Boulevard.
Kyle Foreman, public information officer for the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, said the driver and passengers on the bus sustained minor injuries. Diego Olivera, 18, the driver of the vehicle, was not injured.
Sheriff’s deputies were investigating an earlier collision near the intersection of Patton Boulevard and Loring Drive that was partially blocking the road, Foreman said. Deputies were directing traffic around the scene when Olivera drove up. Deputies motioned at him to stop, Foreman said.
“He didn’t stop and T-boned the bus that was passing in front of him,” Foreman said. “He was not paying attention (and) he’s getting a ticket.”
A collision scene will have law enforcement vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances around it, he said, and drivers need to look at where they’re going.
“People need to pay attention, slow down and, if they can, move into the lane furthest from where the emergency vehicles are parked,” he said.
The road was cleared by about 8:15 p.m.
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