Truck Driver Ran Light In Violent Crash With Bus: West Hartford Police

WEST HARTFORD, CT — Local police Wednesday said the driver of a tractor trailer was responsible for the violent collision March 1 between the truck and a Ct Transit bus.

The WHPD said the operator of the tractor trailer, Akeshpal Singh, 58, of Fresno, Calif., was at fault and cited for failure to obey a traffic control signal. He was not injured.

According to police, Singh's truck was hit by a CT Transit bus being driven by a 54-year-old East Hartford resident, Donald Jones, who police said "did not contribute to the cause of the collision."

At the time of the crash last week, Jones was extricated and taken to an area hospital with "non-life-threatening" injuries, according to police.

The situation, police said, required extensive closures at the intersection of Albany Avenue (Route 44) and Trout Brook Drive.

According to West Hartford police, officers arrived to the busy intersection at about 5:06 a.m. that morning following reports of a major collision there.

When police arrived, they saw that a transit bus had plowed into a tractor trailer, according to the WHPD.

Photographs from the accident scene paint a clear picture of just how lucky the driver was to survive.

According to police images from the scene, the front of the bus is completely destroyed after it smashed into the trailer portion of the tractor trailer.

The operator and lone occupant of the tractor trailer reported no injuries, police said.

Following the accident, police completely closed the intersection to traffic in all directions, but later in the morning, they reopened part of it.

From March 1: 'Bus Driver Hurt In Crash With Tractor Trailer In West Hartford: Update'