GM Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis after crash involving … DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them rear-ended a municipal bus in San Francisco. Cruise says in government documents posted Friday that the robotaxi inaccurately predicted how the bus would move as it pulled out of a bus stop on March 23. […]
MATA bus hits utility pole with passengers onboard MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two people were reportedly taken to the hospital after a MATA bus crashed into a pole Tuesday morning on South Perkins. A driver behind the bus told WREG the bus veered off the road, hit a utility pole and crashed. The driver believes the person operating the bus may have suffered a […]
No more room for vroom? Paris votes on banishing … PARIS (AP) — The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters. Zipping around the City of Light on one of them, wind in the hair, or romantically but naughtily e-scooting à deux on one machine when the gendarmes aren’t looking could soon be over if Parisians vote Sunday to do […]
University bus crashes in Kenya, killing 14 people NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fourteen people, including students, have died after a university bus collided with a passenger vehicle in Kenya, west of the capital, on Thursday. Police say 12 people died on the spot and two others succumbed on the way to the hospital. The bus had 30 people on board and the death […]
School bus involved in accident on I-240 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A school bus was involved in an accident on I-240 near Walnut Grove Wednesday afternoon. According to TDOT, the multi-vehicle crash was reported at mile marker 12.8 at 2:24 p.m. Memphis Police said no injuries were reported. Memphis-Shelby County Schools said there were two adults and one child on the bus during […]
Two injured in crash involving school bus in South … MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two people were sent to the hospital Monday after a crash involving a school bus in South Memphis. Police say officers responded to the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Mallory and Prospect at 4:46 p.m. Both victims were taken to Regional One in critical condition. Memphis-Shelby County Schools told WREG a […]
‘On tour in hell’: Wounded Ukrainian soldiers evacuated DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Their hands are blackened and grimy from the fight. Some are still wearing their combat boots, small flecks of black soil from the battlefield clinging to their torsos, bare under the emergency blanket. With bandaged heads and splinted limbs, the wounded soldiers are stretchered into the waiting medical evacuation bus […]
North Carolina student in good condition after hit … RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina teenager who was struck by a car this week while departing a school bus in Halifax County is now in good condition, a hospital spokesperson said Friday. Tillman Mitchell, a 17-year-old student at the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School in Hollister, had just exited the school bus and was walking […]
2 dead, 9 injured after truck hits pedestrians in … TORONTO (AP) — Two men died Monday after a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians beside a road in the eastern Quebec town of Amqui, although a senior Canadian official rapidly ruled out a terrorism attack or a national security incident. A provincial police spokeswoman said nine other people were injured, including two whose injuries are […]
Divided jury means no death penalty for NYC bike … NEW YORK (AP) — A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist convicted of maniacally racing a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming others. The decision means Sayfullo Saipov, 35, an Uzbekistan citizen who lived in New Jersey, gets an […]
Nigeria bus crashes into train; 6 dead and dozens … ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Six people were killed and dozens injured when a train crashed into a passenger bus in Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday, said the emergency response agency. The bus was taking government staff to work when it collided with the intra-city train in the Ikeja area of Lagos, said Ibrahim Farinloye, head of […]