It’s hard to believe, but yet another tour bus has crashed killing and injuring its passengers. This time, the bus was carrying tourists on the way to New York (NY) when it slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on I-80, the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The passengers involved in this crash are Asian tourists. As…
In his latest post to our firm’s VA All Serious Injuries blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on lack of research tools for passengers on the safety of discount bus lines. In May 2011, SkyExpress bus swerved off northbound Interstate 95 in Virginia, killing four people and injuring over fifty. Rick notes that besides death,…
Passengers should be wary of discount bus lines providing discount fares because the calculation could add up to discount safety, according to the Virginian-Pilot. In May 2001, about 30 miles north of Richmond, Virginia (VA), a bus operated by a Sky Express, a discount company with a poor record of fatigued drivers overturned on a…
The tour bus industry is again under scrutiny after another fatal accident involving a bus. Police said a tour bus carrying Asian visitors rear-ended a flatbed truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, in Pennsylvania (PA) on June 27, 2011. The crash claimed the life of the bus driver and injured nearly two dozen passengers, and “the name…
Sometimes even the best measures of security can’t prevent an accident from happening when the at-fault driver is as grossly negligent as in a recent accident. At least six people are dead and 5 passengers remain unaccounted for after a tractor trailer slammed into an Amtrak train on Friday. The truck was one of three that…