| Jan 26 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryTRAFFIC NEWS: 3RD SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT IN 3 DAYSFor the third consecutive day, an area school bus has been involved in a traffic accident.
As with an accident on Tuesday morning, the accident on Wednesday morning involved a school bus from the Humble Independent School District. The bus was hit by another vehicle immediately north of Beltway 8 on Lockwood around 7 o’clock. (more…) |
| Jan 25 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryTRAFFIC NEWS: HUMBLE STUDENTS HURT IN COLLISION WITH SCHOOL BUSFor the second day in a row, some Houston area students were injured in a collision involving a school bus — except this time they weren’t in the bus.
The students were from Atascocita High School in the Humble Independent School District. They were riding in a vehicle in the 16400 block of West Lake Houston Parkway in the vicinity of Breakwater Path when it was involved in a crash around 8 a.m. Tuesday. (more…) |
| Jan 23 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryTRAFFIC NEWS: 5 STUDENTS IN ALDINE SCHOOL BUS CRASH ON I-45 NFive Aldine ISD students were in a school bus crash Monday morning on the North Freeway, and several had what were believed to be minor injuries.
The students’ bus was traveling south on I-45 North when the accident occurred about 9 a.m. The bus and another vehicle collided near the Gulf Bank exit. Among the students was a child who attended Reece Early Childhood Pre-Kindergarten and four children who attended Bethune and Anderson elementary schools. One student was taken to school, but as a precaution, the other four were taken to Texas Children’s Hospital. No other details were immediately available. Statistically, school buses are a relatively safe means of transportation. However, about two dozen students die each year in school bus accidents in the United States, and many more are injured. |
| Jun 03 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryU.S. transportation chief slams his agency for allowing deadly bus line to continue
LaHood is upset because the DOT agency overseeing truck and bus safety, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, did not stop Sky Express bus line of Charlotte, NC from operating despite alarming safety violations. |
The way Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sees it, his own agency shares responsibility for a catastrophic bus crash in Virginia Tuesday that killed four innocent people.| Mar 29 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryBus operators guilty of safety violations keep rolling — and causing fatal bus accidents
The newspaper reports that records show 433 out of 3,100 motor coach operators are named as being on “alert” by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, whose job is to oversee safety for trucks and buses. These alerts indicate a bus threatens passengers via a “higher safety risk.” But despite being named among these alerts, 208 of the 433 bus companies haven’t had a full safety audit in over nine months. And two of them have been involved in a fatal bus crash. So what good were the spot inspections which revealed serious or repeated violations of safety measures? And what good do rules do when a new bus company is allowed to operate for a year and a half without a complete audit? |
USA Today has analyzed government records about tour buses, and what it’s found is alarming.| Jan 26 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryRural roads are riskier for car crash traffic accidents than urban centers
Are Jim S. Adler & Associates’ car crash lawyers on top of this? More than USA Today, it seems. Jimadler.com ran a car wreck blog post on the same conclusion more than 15 months ago. That’s when we alerted you that rural driving is riskier than more crowded urban driving. And why? (more…) |
USA Today | Mar 17 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryMexico-bound tour bus crash fatalities in Texas show bus accident dangers, need for reform
This bus, at least, was part of a legitimate bus line: Americanos USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. That was not the case when 17 persons traveling from Houston to a religious retreat died in a bus crash north of Dallas in 2008. That bus was not legally licensed to operate. But even sanctioned tour buses or charter buses can have deadly bus accidents. And why are bus wrecks so dangerous, if not fatal? It starts with seat belts. Connecticut is currently weighing a measure to require safety belts on school buses, following a January crash that killed a teen student there. Opponents say school buses are a statistically safe way to travel and point to the cost of installing seat belts. But what about the cost of a lost human life?We don’t know yet if the tour bus headed to Mexico today had seat belts, but we do know that many buses do not — even school buses, in most states. In fact, only six states have passed laws requiring that school buses have seat belts, including New York, New Jersey, Florida and California. In the other states, kids are out of luck — and in a school bus accident, they may be out of time. Lacking bus seat belts isn’t the only safety glitch aboard a school bus, tour bus or charter bus. Due to their bulk and height, buses also have a tendency to roll over in a traffic crash, and that can prove deadly. A bus is extremely heavy, and when it rolls over onto its roof, that roof can give way and crush victims inside. Buses also have large amounts of glass via windows throughout the vehicle. This glass can shatter and injure occupants in a bus crash. And with their massive open space, buses have room for loose objects to fly across the interior and harm occupants. These reasons and more show that bus safety reform is vital in America before more innocent people pay the ultimate price, like today’s doomed Texas bus passengers. Jim S. Adler & Associates strongly supports measures to increase bus safety and stands ready to assist bus accident victims with their legal needs. |
This week’s horrifying Mexico-bound tour | Dec 09 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryUnsafe charter bus lines cause many bus accident deaths, injuries
Take the Jan. 2, 2008 Texas bus accident in which one Houston passenger was killed and 17 were injured seriously, with two of them losing arms in the crash. The driver fell asleep at the wheel, ran off U.S. 59, over-corrected and flipped the bus on its side, where it was hit by a pickup truck. Again, a complex and catastrophic traffic accident happened very quickly. |
As a vintage bus line slogan goes, “Leave the driving to us.” Trouble is, when you do that you also leave safety precautions to bus lines, and safety doesn’t always lead their to-do list.| Mar 17 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' CategoryA tractor trailer large truck kills large numbers in Texas-to-Mexico accident
The tragic numbers after a recent bus-truck crash in northeast Mexico were 11 bus passengers killed — including 10 United States and Canadian tourists — and 15 injured when a tractor trailer went out of control and swerved into oncoming traffic, smashing the bus, Mexican authorities said. As usual with such incidents, the diesel truck driver survived with only injuries. The bus driver is dead, along with 10 passengers. Those who were injured reportedly are in “grave” condition. The bus carried largely retirees and had left McAllen, Texas for central Mexico. Now many are dead because of what appears to be a tractor trailer driver’s inability to control his large diesel truck. Such carnage from enormous, hard-to-manage big rig vehicles and diesel trucks is all too common, and the companies which operate such semi trucks must be held accountable. If you or a loved one is harmed in an 18 wheeler, big rig, semi truck, tractor trailer, diesel truck or other form of large truck accident, get a free case review and alert an 18 wheeler accident lawyer or big rig attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates. Such a tractor trailer accident lawyer or semi truck accident lawyer can press for the financial compensation you deserve after the tragedy of a large diesel truck accident. |
Large passenger buses are inherently dangerous. Big rigs, diesel trucks, semi trucks, | Feb 06 |
Archive for the 'bus accidents' Category‘Hang in there Jack’ ads miss bus accidents’ harsh truths
Launched during Super Bowl XLIII’s telecast — among other ads wallowing in the mirth of misery — it’s a warped yet creative campaign, and it’s likely to make even more money for the chain’s 2,100 restaurants. But we’d like to mention, for sensitivity’s sake, its utterly bad timing. |
In case you haven’t heard, Jack got hit by a bus. That’s Jack, the bubble-headed spokesman for fast-food chain Jack in the Box, whose current campaign to sell more artery-clogging burgers and tacos involves mock news and web coverage of Jack’s bus accident injury.