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…
My colleague Rick Shapiro has posted a new blog on our Virginia Trucking Accident/Injury website about a tanker driver who died when his truck left the road in West Virginia (WV) and burst into flames.The cause of the tragic accident on Interstate 77 is unknown, but it was early in the morning and no other…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro writes about the ongoing investigation into a grad crossing crash near Reno, Nevada, on June 24, 2011. Federal officials and state police have determined that the driver of the tractor-driver was at fault for the collision that killed him, a…
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…