The student, Nick, is fine and was released from the hospital around 3:45PM the same day, May 4th, 2012. I also feel the need to clarify the situation to those unfamiliar with the roads around UT campus. This sword fight took place on Guadalupe St just in front of the Co-op. The “crosswalk”, is understood to be the entire area in between the two lights.

Palm Beach County, FL – According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s
Office, the two sisters were shopping at a Publix store in Boca Raton
last Thursday, April 12th. After shopping, they went outside to wait
for a bus. The surveillance video shows the women, one of them in a
wheelchair, waiting by the curb. You see the suspect, a young man
wearing a black shirt, getting closer to them.
As the driver extends the wheelchair ramp, the suspect walks up to
the elderly sisters, grabs a purse knocking one, then the other in
wheelchair to the ground. The suspect then took off.

QUINCY, ILL. — The city of Quincy settled a 2010 lawsuit with a man who became paralyzed from the waist down in a crash involving a Quincy Transit bus.Nicholas Hanson, 29, of New London, Mo. was injured in the Nov. 10, 2010 crash near the intersection of South 36th Street and South Holford Drive.The city agreed to pay $4 million for the injuries Hanson suffered in the crash. The February 2010 lawsuit requested from $3.5 million to $5.5 million in damages.Hanson sued the city, bus driver Becky Dawson, and Taussa Roney, the driver of the vehicle in which Hanson was a passenger.”It’s a bad situation for not only the the bus driver that didn’t want to be involved in an accident that morning, but certainly for our client who wasn’t leaving his residence going to Vatterott College that morning thinking he was going to be coming home in a wheelchair,” Hanson’s attorney, Jim Hansen, said.The lawsuit said that both the bus driver and the driver of the vehicle carrying Hanson were driving too fast for slick road conditions when the collision occurred.

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This is an attempted hit and run accident that occurred on the Fahy Bridge in Bethlehem, PA on 4/2/12. The offending driver, a juvenile, attempted to pass a bus on the left and struck a bicyclist from behind. As the driver fled the scene, the bus driver blocked the bridge to prevent the person from fleeing. Another citizen also blocked the offending car’s path. The driver was taken into custody and charged with multiple offenses, including Pennsylania’s latest law to protect cyclists that went into effect on this day.

A bus driver who deliberately knocked a cyclist down in Bristol, using his bus as a weapon, has been jailed. Gavin Hill, 29, of Frome, previously pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and
causing grievous bodily harm. Bristol Crown Court heard that after an altercation, Hill deliberately
knocked Phillip Mead off his bike by swerving the bus into his path. Sentencing Hill to 17 months in jail, Judge Mark Horton said his action “was not an accident”. “You used the bus as a weapon to bully and intimidate Mr Mead” he added.

Hill was told he would serve half his sentence before being considered for release on license The court was told the incident started on the morning of 5 April 2011 when Hill had driven too close to Mr Mead on the nearby St James Barton roundabout.

Moments later the bus stopped outside Bristol Magistrates’ Court and Mr Mead propped his bike against the front of the vehicle. He continued to argue with Hill, who remained in his cab.

It’s about time cyclists were treated as human beings” Martin McDonnell Bristol Cycling Campaign
The court was played CCTV footage which showed Mr Mead cycle off. Moments later the footage shows the bus overtaking him before sharply swerving to the left knocking the cyclist over. Mr Mead suffered a broken leg and his bike was crushed.

The court was told Hill, a qualified driver with 10 years’ experience, was previously of excellent character and his defence accepted the collision happened in “a moment of madness”. Gerald Creed, managing director of Bugler Coaches, said Hill had been sacked by the company on the day the incident happened. He added that the firm’s sympathies lay with Mr Mead.

Martin McDonnell, from Bristol Cycling Campaign, said incidents like this
were happening far too often. “It’s about time cyclists were treated as human beings and not just flesh,”
he said. “As a group we’re calling on Bristol City Council to do more to increase
cycle safety in the city and to pledge their support to the Sunday Times Safer Cycling campaign,” he added.