CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Greyhound bus traveling from Atlanta to New York was stuck on the side of the road for more than eight hours Saturday morning after a tire blew out, according to Greyhound and passengers on the bus.
Around 2:30 a.m., Greyhound bus #US067 stopped in Charlotte. About 50 miles and 45 minutes later, a rear tire blew out and caused the bus to come to a stop on the side of I-85 North in Lexington, North Carolina.
Pauline Mitchell was a passenger on the bus who got on in Atlanta en route to Virginia. She said a tow truck got to them around 5 a.m., but nothing was fixed by the time she called Queen City News nearly five hours later.
According to the passengers on the bus, the bus driver ordered an Uber back to Charlotte to pick up a new bus for the passengers. Meanwhile, before he got back, another Greyhound bus saw them on the side of the road and stopped to help them out. Mitchell was one of only nine passengers from the broken-down bus who were able to fit onto the new bus. There were about 50 people on the Greyhound bus that broke down…