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…
Witnesses are saying it’s amazing that more people weren’t injured or killed in a Greyhound bus accident that occurred just outside of Downtown Fresno, California. As of this writing, six people were dead and another nine were seriously injured. The bus was carrying 35 passengers from Sacramento to Los Angeles along Route 99 when it…
Forty-six year old William Detore was cycling in his home town of Sacramento California when he was run over and killed by a Sacramento city bus, which was heading west on L street past the California state Capitol. No passengers were injured. Investigators are still trying to determine if Detore crashed into the side of…
Luis Rivera of the Bronx, NY was trying to cross a busy street seventy five feet from the marked crosswalk when he was struck and killed by a city bus. The driver reported that he never saw the twenty two year old, but felt a “bump” and stopped the bus immediately. When he left the…
Ronald E. Cunningham had a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal driving limit and was carrying two 18-packs of Budweiser when he attempted to board an Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus at the corner of Main and LaVeta in Orange. The attempt caused Cunningham a catastrophic personal injury that led…
