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…
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…
A Norfolk, Virginia (VA), bike rider was lucky to walk away injury-free after running into an HRT light-rail train making a trial run on June 25, 2011. Is this incident a sign of accidents to come this August, when the light rail officially launches? Read more in this article. CD
Anyone drinking and boating in Virginia during the weekend of June 24-26, 2011, will find themselves targets for VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Conservation Police. Over that three-day period, state park and water police will be carrying out Operation Dry Water and ticketing and taking off the water anyone found with a blood…