All posts containing the tag: "bus"
Posted Nov 20th 2009 3:54PM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has obtained the 911 calls made when one of Miley Cyrus' tour buses crashed last night on a highway in Virginia, killing the driver and injuring one passenger. Miley was not involved in any way.
In the first call, the caller tells the dispatcher the bus driver is still alive, but "losing color." This is significant because officials were investigating whether or not the driver died before the crash occurred ... which would help explain how the bus drifted off the road and then crashed.
In the second call, which sounds like it's being made by a different person, the caller says the driver was suffering cardiac arrest.
A third 911 call was made, in which you can hear the caller being instructed on how to perform CPR. This caller also says there are people still trapped in the back of the bus, but they are all okay.
The driver, 53-year-old William Douglas, died at the scene.
UPDATE: Police tell TMZ there were no obvious signs that alcohol played a factor in the crash, and believe Douglas may have had health-related issues. The matter is still under investigation.
Filed under: Miley Cyrus
Tags: 911 call, 911Call, bus, crash, miley cyrus, MileyCyrus, tour
Posted May 14th 2009 10:10AM by TMZ Staff
Bet you've never seen anything like this before: A guy on the street tried to attack a guy inside a party bus -- while the bus was still moving!!
Filed under: Drunks, Fights, Ride Me
Tags: bus, fights, PartyBus, video
Posted May 8th 2009 2:15PM by TMZ Staff
Not only did John Leguizamo walk into a paparazzi hornet's nest yesterday by passing Kiefer Sutherland's building the day he turned himself in, but dude also walked in front of a moving bus, which screeched to a halt.
Safety first, people -- look both ways before crossing the street!
Tags: bus, john leguizamo, tour bus, TourBus, video
Posted Nov 20th 2008 5:50PM by TMZ Staff
A double-decker bus carrying The Roots crashed and flipped over in Paris last night -- and after their drummer crawled out of the rubble of cereal, broken glass and bathroom fluid, he immediately blogged about it.
Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt when a van (pictured underneath the bus) crashed into the bus, forcing it to do a 360 on the highway and turn on its side. When the drummer, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, emerged from the chaotic scene, he immediately sent a post-wreck email to Okayplayer.com that read: "well...since we are sitting on the side of the road. what better way to pass the time while the ambulance come then [sic] to....blog."
Love later wrote a detailed blow-by-blow of the crash and aftermath from a motel, where he described the moment he realized he wasn't dead, described the injuries ("some of us have cuts and neck braces on"), and declared, "we are so grateful for this outcome."
Filed under: Music
Tags: bus, crash, the roots, TheRoots
Posted Jan 23rd 2007 5:22PM by TMZ Staff
Blonde bombshell Jessica Simpson and balladeer borefriend John Mayer are taking their show on the road. The new couple was spotted in Miami just hours ago -- loading into Mayer's tour bus. 
Mayer will be performing in Jacksonville on the 25th, and Jessica seems to be going along for the ride. Just a few months ago, Jessica weathered a media backlash for her then publicist's mistake of going public with the Mayer romance and then denying it. Now Jess is on board and on the bus.
Filed under: Hook-Ups, Paparazzi Photo, Music, Jessica Simpson
Tags: boyfriend, bus, girlfriend, Jessica Simpson, JessicaSimpson, John Mayer, JohnMayer, love, music, Tour
Posted Feb 19th 2006 4:15PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Richard Bright, a character actor who appeared in all three "Godfather" movies and more recently on "The Sopranos," was struck and killed by a bus, police said.
Bright, 68, was hit by a private Academy Bus as he crossed the street at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in his Manhattan neighborhood, police Detective Bernard Gifford said.
There were no arrests as of Sunday but police said the investigation was continuing. The bus driver told police he was not aware that he had hit anyone.
Bright played mob enforcer Al Neri in the "Godfather" movies, a bodyguard to the Corleone family patriarchs played by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
He played a con artist hustling Ali McGraw in 1972's "The Getaway" and acted in dozens of other films such as Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America" and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and in TV shows such as "Hill Street Blues."
"He always said it was the work that was the reward," said Brett Smiley, a friend and fellow actor.
Bright was arrested in 1965 on an obscenity charge for language he used in a San Francisco production of poet Michael McClure's two-person play "The Beard," which was shut down.
The American Civil Liberties Union took up the case and the charges against Bright were later dismissed in what was considered a precedent for artistic expression rights.
Tags: actor, bus, godfather, nyc, richard bright, RichardBright, the sopranos, TheSopranos
