A mass transit bus was involved in an accident leading to three people suffering injuries. Reports indicate a car made a wide right turn and hit the bus at the intersection of Stratford Place and Westhampton Avenue in Danville, Virginia (VA). The three people injured in the bus crash were taken to Danville Regional Medical…
Bus, ferry, commuter van and, some time soon, light-rail engineers and conductors for Hampton Roads Rapid Transit will face penalties or firing if they talk or text on a cell phone while operating an HRT vehicle. The ban on cell phone use extends to other handheld electronic devices and to any employees having agency-supplied phones…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injury Board, my colleague Randy Appleton notes that a rail safety and injury attorney in our office was recently interviewed by a reporter for WVEC, the local ABC TV affiliate, about the need for an automatic emergency braking system for the HRT Tide light-rail system in Norfolk,…
In his latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury blog, my colleague John C. registers his interest in a proposal to build a unique public transportation system known as personal rapid transit in the city. The system would feature pod cars running along raised tracks. A primary advantage that…
A woman in Seattle was crossing the street in January 2008 when she was hit by a Metro bus mirror. You may be thinking that the woman’s injuries couldn’t be that bad since she did not endure a direct collision with the bus. However, even being hit by the mirror of a mass transit vehicle…