Kevin Coffey, a Temple University sophomore, had never taken the double-decker Megabus from Philadelphia to Toronto. About 2:30 a.m., the 13-foot-high bus he was riding in crashed into a railroad bridge 10 feet, 9 inches highin Salina, N.Y., just outside of Syracuse, shredding the top deck of the bus and toppling it on its side. Among the four killed in the crash were Coffey, 19, a native of Kansas, and Deanna Armstrong, 18, from Voorhees, N.J., said Onondaga County Sheriff's Deputy Herb Wiggins. Five others were seriously injured and remained hospitalized last night, including Carl Kerr, 51, and Mabel Tabb, 79, both of Philadelphia; a King of Prussia woman, Lo Wah Chu, 55; and the bus driver, John Tomaszewski, 59, of Bordentown Township, N.J., police said.
Buses are fucked up. There's such a false sense of security on these death machines that you completely let down your guard. They don't even have seat belts for christ's sake. But for some reason we feel totally comfortable and throw on our Ipods just in time to get decapitated by a bridge. No thanks, I'll ride my bike.
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