bus accidents
Unsafe charter bus lines cause many bus accident deaths, injuries
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.
Take the Jan. 2, 2008 Texas bus accident in which one Houston passenger was killed and 17 were injured seriously, with two [...]
A tractor trailer large truck kills large numbers in Texas-to-Mexico accident
Large passenger buses are inherently dangerous. Big rig trucks, semi trucks, 18 wheeler trucks or tractor trailers are even more so. When combined, how dangerous are they? You do the math.
The tragic numbers after a recent bus-truck crash in northeast Mexico were 11 bus passengers killed — including 10 United States and Canadian tourists — [...]
‘Hang in there Jack’ ads miss bus accidents’ harsh truths
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.
Launched during Super Bowl XLIII’s telecast — among other ads wallowing [...]
A salmonella lawyer eyes food poisoning’s “smoking gun”
When an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning struck thousands of Americans last fall, federal investigators spent months seeking the proverbial “smoking gun.” In short, they spent months trying to pinpoint the origin and responsibility of an onslaught which sickened and even killed.
First they targeted tomatoes, and eventually jalapeno peppers, then Serrano peppers. Finally the “smoking [...]
California bus accident shows gamble in such travel
While buses in general can be as risky as trying to draw on an inside straight, casino tour buses can be an even worse bet.
In California Sunday, a casino tour bus taking passengers from Sacramento to a gambling den flipped over and rolled into a ditch, killing eight people and critically injuring at least 30 [...]
Bus accident epidemic gets federal action
In a move that came too late for too many bus accident victims, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has halted approval of any new bus carriers until the feds get a fix on a problem that’s claimed 20 lives in two crashes in just the past week.
The government was responding to a problem created [...]
Casino tour bus accidents need a no-gamble bus accident lawyer
Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?
If so, you might want to try your luck in multiple ways. One would be planning a trip to a casino resort in order to gamble. Another would be to take such a trip via a chartered casino tour bus.
Such buses are operated in order to ferry large groups [...]
Mississippi fatal bus crash claims more innocent lives
Again, a fatal bus crash has taken innocent lives, in this case three tourists aboard a casino bus in Mississippi. No other vehicles were involved when the bus, taking 43 visitors to an airport, flipped over in a median. Twenty-seven people were injured and taken to a hospital, where one was in critical condition.
The Associated [...]
Another catastrophic bus accident takes many lives
What will it take to wake up and shake up government authorities, charter bus lines and the public about the potential for catastrophic dangers in bus accidents?
Early Friday morning, another chartered bus bound north from Houston had a horrific bus accident in the Dallas area, killing 14. This bus accident wasn’t many miles from the [...]
SOS: Yamaha Rhino ATVs invite DOAs
Any traffic fatality is a tragedy, but we can take cold comfort in the fact that many such tragedies at least involve people with a purpose. We need our cars and trucks for useful functions, and that’s what many people are pursuing when they’re killed or injured while driving or riding in them. They are [...]
