| Jun 03 |
U.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.
| Dec 09 |
Unsafe 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.