Up to 10 dead as bus crashes after driver attacked
A Greyhound bus crashed in central Tennessee today after a passenger slit the driver’s throat.
The crash occurred near Manchester, halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, on Interstate 24.
The local sheriff’s office declined to comment. Although Greyhound reported four dead, Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville said 10 people had died.
Passenger Carly Rinearson said a man who looked to be 30 to 35 years old kept approaching her front seat in the bus and asking what time it was.
The man then asked if he could have her seat.
She said no. Afterward, the man walked up to the front of the bus and slashed the driver’s throat, she said.
The bus then swerved off the road and crashed. All Greyhound bus services in the US have been cancelled as a result.
