Overview
- MBTA Transit Police are pursuing negligent operation, marked lanes, and failure to stop violations in Somerville District Court.
- Investigators say the 40-year-old driver crossed double yellow lines and ran a red at the I-93 off-ramp before the collision.
- The early-Sunday crash on Playstead Road propelled parked cars into a house’s front steps; witnesses reported the bus also struck a second home, and a 98-year-old resident was unharmed.
- Officers reported temperatures near 50 degrees and no roadway ice, conflicting with the operator’s claim of losing control on “black ice.”
- The driver has been suspended; it remains unclear whether the bus was in service or carrying passengers, and the vehicle was removed later that morning.