According to the US Department of Transportation (US DOT), the number of bus crashes has climbed in recent years. In the United States as a whole, there were 13,195 accidents involving buses in 2007 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), up from 8,555 in 2003. In those same five years, 1,651 people…
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…
Nineteen year old Alma Lopez was crossing Vineyard Avenue at Simon Way in Oxnard California with her two young children in a stroller when she became the victim of a pedestrian hit and run accident. Mehran Khamseh, a tow truck driver from Santa Barbara, turned left onto Vineyard Avenue, knocking Lopez over and dragging the…
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…
A young mother from Moreno Valley, California, her four-year-old daughter, and a 78 year old Newport Beach man remain hospitalized with serious injuries after a major crash on I-405 that occurred around 8:30 the morning of October 23rd. Ana Maria Flores, the young mother from Moreno Valley, was moving into the northbound lane of I-405…
