SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 – A 23-year-old Billinngs, Montana woman has settled a lawsuit stemming from a 2005 school bus crash. The accident occurred on October 14, 2005. According to the suit, the bus driver, Dennis Boehler, failed to yield at an intersection and collided with Lee’s car. Lee was seriously injured and had to be [...]
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 – A 54-year-old man died when the vehicle he was riding in collided head-on with a tour bus in Porterville, authorities said. The unidentified Bakersfield man was riding in a 1990 Honda driven by Raul Hernandez, 46, of Bakersfield, according to the California Highway Patrol. They and two other passengers were traveling [...]
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 – A 49-year-old woman died when she was run over by a Greyhound bus that was pulling out of a downtown station, authorities said. Roxanne Elizabeth Young of Marysville died at UC Davis Medical Center shortly after the accident, which occurred about 1:15 p.m. as she attempted to cross L Street between [...]
AUGUST 31, 2009 – A 46-year-old man died after his vehicle drifted into opposite lanes and collided with a school bus in Riverbank, authorities said. The unidentified Riverbank man was driving a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier east on Atchison Street when the crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. just east of Eighth Street, according to the California [...]
AUGUST 11, 2009 – Three occupants of a sports-utility vehicle and a bus driver were injured in a head-on collision, authorities said. The Fresno Area Express bus was traveling south on Maple Street about 3:20 p.m. when a Chevrolet Trailblazer heading west on North Avenue failed to negotiate a curve in the road. The SUV [...]
JULY 16, 2009 – A 16-year-old girl was seriously injured when she crashed a vehicle while trying to evade police, authorities said. After Richmond police officers attempted to pull the girl over for driving erratically, she fled in her vehicle, police said. Moments later, she collided with an AC Transit bus at the intersection of [...]
JULY 7, 2009 – Last week, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled that Greyhound could be held liable for failing to install seatbelts on its buses, after eight lawsuits were filed by passengers injured in an accident on Interstate 5 on July 1, 2005. The lawsuits were filed in Colusa County, CA. Greyhound had [...]
JULY 2, 2009 – In school transportation news, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) delivered its annual report to members of Congress this week. In the report, the NTSB called upon the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to prohibit school bus drivers to talk on their cell phones while driving. The report cited and [...]
JUNE 16, 2009 – San Bernardino fire and investigators from the San Bernardino County Coroner’s office have confirmed a 32-year-old Fontana man was killed Monday night when his 1995 Chevy pickup truck collided with a San Manuel Casino charter bus carrying 23 passengers. The San Bernardino County bus accident occurred at the intersection of [...]
JUNE 8, 2009 – Almost four years after 23 nursing home residents died in a bus fire during an evacuation from Brighton Gardens in Bellaire Texas, families have reached a nearly $80 million settlement, attorneys have reported. The defendants included in the settlement include the bus company, the bus manufacturer, and the nursing [...]
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