Five Injured After Truck Crashes into MBTA Bus

Image Credit: Hingham Police Department

HINGHAM, MA — Distracted driving was the cause of a collision involving a truck and an MBTA bus, police said.

On July 19 at 6:29 p.m., police in Hingham responded to a reported crash on North Street in Hingham Square. When police arrived, they found five injured people, according to the Hingham Police Department. Four people in the truck were injured, as was the driver of the bus. There were no passengers on the bus at the time of the crash.

Witnesses told police that the truck was traveling on North Street from Route 3A, cross over the center line, and drove head-on into the bus.

Passengers of the truck told police that the driver was arguing with a passenger in the back seat and had turned around to look at him when the crash occurred, police said.

One of the injured passengers refused medical treatment and rode away on a bicycle. The driver of the truck, the two other passengers and the bus driver were transported to South Shore Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

No one in the truck wrote a seat belt while the bus driver was wearing their seat belt.

The truck driver, an 18-year-old from Pembroke, was cited for operating to endanger, marked lanes violation, impeded/unsafe operation, and a seat belt violation. He will appear at Hingham District Court on the charges at a future date.

North Street was closed at Station Street and at Main Street until 7:30 p.m.