Lights & Sirens » Pierce County Transit http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime Go behind the yellow tape with The News Tribune Tue, 21 May 2013 18:06:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Man arrested after Federal Way crash with Pierce County bus http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2012/11/27/man-arrested-after-federal-way-crash-with-pierce-county-bus/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2012/11/27/man-arrested-after-federal-way-crash-with-pierce-county-bus/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:22:46 +0000 Alexis Krell http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/?p=42108 A 31-year-old man was arrested after a crash with a Pierce County bus today that involved drugs or alcohol, according to the Washington State Patrol.

The crash happened about 3:20 p.m. on southbound Interstate 5 near South 376th Street, when a vehicle failed to slow for traffic and struck the bus, the State Patrol reported.

No one was injured.

Further details were not immediately available.

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No routes were totally shut down but there were some routes that had fewer buses running resulting in some missed pickup times, according to agency spolesman Lind Simonsen.

To keep its buses fueled, Simonsen said they are running buses up to Seattle Tacoma International Airport where these is a compressed natural gas fueling station that the agency is allowed to use in …

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