Dallas Lawyer Gets Greyhound Out of Case Over Crash Caused by Passenger Takeover
While United Airlines is facing major heat for kicking passengers off flights, Scott Self's bus company client got sued for allowing one to board: namely, a paranoid meth user who screamed "Everybody's going to die!" before grabbing the wheel from the bus driver and causing a crash that injured several people.
April 18, 2017 at 01:08 PM
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While United Airlines is facing major heat for kicking passengers off flights, Scott Self's bus company client got sued for allowing one to board—namely, a paranoid meth user who screamed “Everybody's going to die!” before grabbing the wheel from the bus driver and causing a crash that injured several people.
And Self recently convinced Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals that a lawsuit filed against Greyhound Lines by three injured passengers should be dismissed because there was no proof that the company or its driver could have foreseen the criminal actions of a third party.
The background to his victory in Garren v. Greyhound Lines is as follows, according to the Fifth Court's decision:
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