The 2001 Greyhound bus attack occurred on October 3, 2001, near Manchester, Tennessee, when Damir Igrić (September 21, 1972 – October 3, 2001), a Croatian man, commandeered a Greyhound Lines bus en route from Chicago to Orlando, Florida.
He slashed the throat of the driver with a utility knife, causing the bus to crash into oncoming traffic.
The bus was carrying 39 passengers at the time, and was travelling from Chicago to its final destination of Orlando, Florida.
At 4 a.m., while the bus was travelling on Interstate 24 near Manchester, 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, Igrić lunged at the driver and slashed his throat.
However, following a very similar incident almost a year later, Greyhound Lines installed partitions on most of its newer coaches that, even if forced open, would prevent someone from easily reaching the driver directly.
When ethnic tensions began to flare during the mid-nineties he joined others in Croatia's "homeland war" of independence from Yugoslavia.
[2] Igrić, a citizen of Croatia, entered the United States through the city of Miami, Florida during March 1999, on a 30-day transit visa.