Greyhound Bus Crash on I-70 Near Highland, Illinois — 3 Dead, 12 Injured When a Fatigued Driver Left the Travel Lanes at 1:48 a.m. and Struck Parked Trucks on the Silver Lake Rest Area Exit Ramp: Attorney911 Litigates Common-Carrier Negligence Under Illinois Law, We Pursue the Motorcoach Operator and Its Corporate Parent for Fatigue-Inducing Variable Scheduling and the Failure to Mitigate Known Unsafe Driving Behaviors, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD Records, Dispatch Data and Driver Qualification Files Before They Are Purged, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
The Highland Greyhound Crash: What the NTSB Just Confirmed — and Why the Clock Is Almost Out for Victims’ Families If your family member was on that Greyhound motorcoach when it left Interstate 70 and drove into three parked trucks at the Silver Lake Rest Area near Highland, Illinois, in the early morning hours of July 12, 2023, you already know the worst of what happened. Three passengers did not come home. Twelve more were hurt, some seriously. The truck drivers inside their parked rigs walked away without a scratch. What you may not have known until now is that the federal government just confirmed this was not an unavoidable accident. On May 20, 2025, the National Transportation Safety Board released its final report, and the finding is devastating for Greyhound Lines, Inc.: the probable cause was the motorcoach driver’s fatigue. The contributing factors were Greyhound’s own variable scheduling practices that created the fatigue, Greyhound’s failure to address the driver’s recurring unsafe driving behaviors, and three tractor-trailers parked illegally on an exit ramp shoulder because America has run out of safe truck parking. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes commercial-vehicle,…