A history of bus crashes, faulty brakes, worn tires, poor maintenance, bad driving records, incomplete logbooks, and flagrant safety violations can all contribute to a charter bus company’s deficient safety score. But each charter bus company does receive a score, which is readily available on the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) website. So why…
A California tour bus overturned on a Phoenix highway recently, killing six passengers and injuring all other 17 people on board. The bus, which was operated by Van Nuys, California based Tierra Santa Inc., reportedly hit a pickup and rolled over, ejecting six passengers who died of their injuries. The bus was traveling its regular…
Whether you call it “hit and run” or “leaving the scene of an accident” the result is the same; someone is seriously injured, brain damaged, paralyzed, or killed in an accident, and the responsible party takes off without even stopping to see if the victim needs help. For some reason this offence is growing in…
According to public records compiled by auto insurance companies, over forty percent of all car crashes in the United States occur at intersections. The majority (if not all) of these intersections are equipped with traffic signals or stop signs, which means the cause of the accidents is drivers and pedestrians not paying attention when approaching…
Tierra Santa Inc, a tour bus operator based in Van Nuys, California, runs regular bus routes from California to Mexico via Arizona. After six people were killed in a tour bus rollover accident in Arizona, the local press started digging into the company’s record. The company reportedly has a long history of safety violations, cannot…
A flight instructor was trying to help one of his students when he accidentally walked into the propeller of the student’s plane and was killed on the job. Apparently the student was having a problem with the cockpit canopy of his Piper Sport Aircraft. When thirty year old flight instructor, Michael Costales, left his own…
Dan Crain of Irvine, California didn’t appear to be in critical condition after he was struck by a car in Orange County on Newport Coast Drive. Nevertheless, the sixty-five year old cyclist died in the hospital from his injuries a week later. Crain was travelling southbound on Newport Coast Drive when he was hit by…
A twenty-five year old Copperopolis, California woman was jogging with her ten year old niece when she was struck and killed by a motor vehicle. The young girl was not injured in the incident. Amy Lynn Freeseha and her niece were jogging along the river in the early evening when Freehesa was struck from behind…
Manuel Moreno, of Valley Center, California had worked at the Evergreen Nursery in Oceanside, California for more than twenty years, most of those on the same piece of equipment. His primary responsibility was to run a machine that sorts soil. Despite his years of experience, however, Moreno was somehow pulled into and killed by the…
Henry Silva, Sr. was clearing brush outside Watsonville, California with a Public Works Crew when he was somehow pulled into the wood chipper he was using and killed on the job. Silva, 61 years old, had worked for the department since 1969. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Co-workers learned quickly about the incident…
