Friday, December 21, 2007

HEADLINES 12-21-07

Eight dead, 24 hurt in Egypt bus crash
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
A series of fatal road and rail accidents in recent years triggered a public outcry over the government's handling of road and transport safety. ...
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* Three killed and 81 injured in four road accidents in Sri Lanka
Colombo Page - Colombo,Sri Lanka
Police said that the accident took place when the bus had attempted to pass the truck. The injured were admitted to Karapitiya hospital. ...
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More than 90 killed, injured in traffic accident in Cote d'Ivoire
Xinhua - China
Police in Cote d'Ivoire have conducted an investigation into the cause of the accident. Passengers on the bus are from Burkina Faso's colony, ...
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Thick Fog Causes School Bus Accident
KSFY - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
By Drew Sandholm Thick fog is being blamed for two school bus accidents outside of Lennox this morning. One of the accidents sent two students to the ...
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Accidents at Jelapang toll plaza due to negligence
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
This risk is even greater in the case of a lorry or bus laden with goods or passengers. The driver would find out too late that the brake no longer worked, ...
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US Astronaut Mourns Mother From Orbit
The Associated Press -
Although no other US astronaut has lost a close relative while in space, several have had to be told about accidents or major illnesses involving their ...
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Eid travellers stranded after train accident
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
Due to cancellation of trains, extra burden of passengers was seen on the bus stands in the twin cities. People wanting to celebrate Eid in their hometowns ...
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Toll plazas to be removed by July
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
It was therefore not an ad-hoc response to the numerous bus accidents which had occurred there. "Our concern with the Jelapang toll stretch is not just ...
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Thick Fog Causes School Bus Accident
Poor driving conditions cause two school buses to get into accidents outside Lennox this morning.
KSFY - News - Local & Regional - http://www.ksfy.com/news/local

Daily Crime Incidents for December 21, 2007.
By spdk(spdk)
A case of Non Fatal Road accident has been registered in Mangalore South Police Station. On 20/12/2007 at 1010 hrs at Falnir Mangalore one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KL-14-B-5099 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and ...
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School Bus Mishaps
By Karen
By Blur Loterina Buses are a fairly safe mode of transportation. However, they can be very dangerous if they are involved in an accident. Bus accidents often result in serious injuries and even death. Factors that contribute to these ...
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In recent accidents, NYU bus drivers not sure about protocol - NYU ...
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Which city has the coolest bus service and website?
By Nita
Blueline Transport Corporation, which runs a private service in Delhi doesn’t have a website. DTC buses are known to be difficult to use, and as as the wiki describes, the buses “can be overcrowded, requiring agility, ...
A wide angle view of India - http://nitawriter.wordpress.com

For a Stealthy Transit Fare Increase, Listless Boos and Shows of ...
New York Times - United States
Still, users of the unlimited cards are, almost by definition, the most frequent users of mass transit. Why else buy those cards? ...
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Environment, Finance Key Goals Of New Transit Leader
NBC 11.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bay Area Rapid Transit District directors Thursday unanimously elected former Walnut Creek Mayor Gail Murray as their new board president and Tom Blalock of ...
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ABTS Sets Agenda For 2008 - YMCA,Stop & Shop,Transit Center On Tap
Wave of Long Island (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
The Transit Plaza: Scheduled to be the centerpiece of the ABTS plan, the Transit Center from Beach 69 to Beach 67 Street will contain a dozen new stores, ...
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Word of the moment on transit: progress
insideTORONTO.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Transit is moving forward in this town - in more ways than one. It's not just that the city is on the cusp of receiving a huge infusion of provincial ...
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Transit restructing back in budget
Sherwood Park News - Sherwood Park,Alberta,Canada
First it was in, then it was out, then it was back on the table and with a few final revisions, a plan to restructure the Strathcona County Transit system ...
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Transit NZ's Traffic Cams On Metservice.Com
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
Check out the new Transit traffic section and the day's weather on metservice.com. The live cameras, which are updated every minute, are the newest addition ...
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Family of cash-in-transit worker escape attempted raid
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The family of a cash-in-transit worker have escaped uninjured from an attempted raid this morning. Gardai said that a gang of three or four men took the ...
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Bus tunnel shut today while glitch is repaired
Seattle Times - United States
No serious delays were reported by Wednesday afternoon, said Kevin Desmond, general manager for King County Metro Transit. The computer system, installed ...
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Another closure for bus tunnel
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Although Sound Transit and Metro officials thought they'd figured out the computer problems that forced the tunnel's closure Monday, the same problems arose ...
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Top News: GO Bus Strike Looms as Talks Hit Impasse
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Sara Ditta, The...
The brakes were slammed yesterday on talks to prevent a GO bus strike, and Hamilton commuters will soon see the effects. GO Transit broke off talks yesterday with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1587 after its final offer was voted down ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Senator Murray keeps light rail moving forward with $94 million in ...
Sound Transit today lauded Washington Sen. Patty Murray for her efforts to secure $94 million in FY 2008 light rail funding, including $24 million for the University Link light rail extension and $70 million toward completing light rail ...
Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org

Transit-first street plan hailed
By laurel
It puts the needs of transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists ahead of motorists by sacrificing some automotive lanes for separated streetcar and bike lanes, and is being hailed as a success in neighborhood-building.
Post Carbon Cities - News - http://postcarboncities.net/taxonomy/term/53/1

Former Autonetics building will house transit buses, offices
Public transit appears to finally have a home of its own, and all under one roof. On Wednesday, Mower County finalized the purchase of the former Autonetics building.
Postbulletin.com Austin News - http://www.postbulletin.com

Wheeler Center, Metro transit get a boost in federal funding
By Edward Felker Journal Washington Bureau efelker@qconline.com. The Helen Wheeler Center for Community Mental Health in Kankakee is to get $195000 for program expansions as a result of the $555 billion 2008 omnibus appropriations and ...
The Daily Journal Local News - http://www.daily-journ

MTA plan aims to ensure safety on buses
Baltimore Sun - United States
Among other steps, the MTA plans to speed notification of city officers when an incident occurs on a bus or other transit facilities in the city. ...
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POLICE BRIEFS: City of Northville
Northville Record - MI,USA
The suspect's brother said a friend was on the bus during the incident, but he wasn't able to be located. After making contact with a Northville Public ...
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First Chapter: Reason To Wonder
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
The route consistently had the most incidents—drunk and disorderlies, assaults and just plain freaky dudes that scared the other, usually indifferent ...
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ICSD hearings begin
Ithaca College The Ithacan - NY, USA
... who rode the school bus with her and witnessed several of the events. Epiphany took the stand yesterday to describe the series of incidents, ...
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headlines 12-20-07
By Al M(Al M)
The Examiner reports a Muni bus hit a pedestrian Monday evening bringing the total number of "pedestrian incidents" to 20 since the start of Muni's fiscal year on July 1. 20 incidents? Why so many? Is this excessive? ...
Bus Emergency news archive - http://busemergencynewsarchive.blogspot.com/

Day 1 in Beijing
By The Bimbo
Snippets: Incidents in China. Bobo woke up really late the next day which was 8th Dec (Sat). She was suppose to get up at 8am so that she could visit the Great Wall of China but instead she was up at 11! ...
d bImBo WiF D tWiSt - http://brainybimbo.blogspot.com/

Interesting Comments
By ShrinkWrapped
The man chased the muggers down the block but they got away on a bus. He later said that he couldn't have challenged them directly anyway, as he had no police backup, but he did retrieve all my important things: credit cards, ...
ShrinkWrapped - http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/

SCHOOL BUS INCIDENT
This policy governs the handling of school bus accidents/incidents ... Category I bus accident/incident – significant injuries present in one or more ...

Bus Driver Allegedly Asks Decoy for Sex
The Associated Press -
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit school bus driver taking children to class is accused of trying to buy sex from an undercover officer posing as a streetwalker. ...
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Mom of space station astronaut dies in crash
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Police in the town of Lombard, Illinois, west of Chicago, said Tani's mother was behind a school bus stopped at a crossing when the gate went down. ...
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Governor says moving bus stop will help Capitol security
Houston Chronicle - United States
2007 AP AUSTIN — A new security plan for the Texas Capitol includes different routes for vehicles coming to and from the building and moving a busy bus stop ...
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Bus crash blamed on tyre blowout
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Tony Gee A four-wheel-drive tourist bus that crashed down a bank, injuring eight passengers, is thought to have blown out a front tyre seconds before it ...
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Bus tunnel remains closed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By KERY MURAKAMI But, while it will be closed as usual over the weekend, it might reopen Monday. Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said technicians have ...
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Providence mayor fires EMA director after school bus debacle
Boston Globe - United States
Cicilline on Thursday blamed the debacle on a systemwide communication breakdown that included the bus company, the school district, ...
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No bus strike expected this week: GO
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
A looming strike by bus drivers, ticket agents and GO office staff isn't expected until at least next week, GO chair Peter Smith said today. ...
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NT bus drivers strike over safety concerns
About half of Darwin and Palmerston's public bus fleet have gone on strike today over safety concerns and are warning of further action in the coming months.
ABC News: Health - http://www.abc.net.au/news/

Capitol Security Changes Force Bus Stop Closure
Security changes at the capitol are forcing Capital Metro to close down a major bus stop on 11th Street near Congress. The stop serves 22 routes but will have to be relocated within the next year. Capital Metro estimates that 1400 ...
Local News for MyFox Austin - http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox

Police Investigate 2nd Bus Stop Abduction Attempt
INDIANAPOLIS - Metro police are warning parents about two attempted abductions near IPS bus stops after two different girls report they were approached by a man in a similar vehicle.
WISH - Local News - http://www.wishtv.com/global/category.asp?c=1506

School Bus Driver Saves Student
A Franklin school bus driver is being hailed as a hero after saving a student's life.
Today's TMJ4 - News - Local - http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local

Bus driver allegedly solicits policewoman
DETROIT (UPI) -- A Detroit Public Schools bus driver was arrested after he allegedly pulled his bus alongside an undercover officer and propositioned her for sex.
News & Features - ArcaMax Publishing - http://www.arcamax.com/newsheadlines


Uganda: Kampala-Kigali Bus in Fatal Crash
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
One of the cross boarder buses from Uganda to Rwanda has had a fatal accident from which reports suggest several deaths and severe injuries, the bus company ...
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3 killed, 50 injured in bus accident in Bangladesh
Xinhua - China
18 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and 50 others were injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch in Bangladesh's Bogra district, 170 km southwest of ...
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2 accidents send 7 schoolchildren to hospitals
Baltimore Sun - United States
The crash was one of two school bus accidents in the state yesterday. The five Edgewood Middle School students were treated at Upper Chesapeake Medical ...
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Truck accident leaves 19 dead in Mexico
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Accidents like this have increased in recent times in Mexico. In October, a bus accident in the western state of Guadalajara killed 15 people, while 17 were ...
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Ruling shows flaws in MMC quality-control
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
An accident in Hiroshima Prefecture three years earlier, in which a bus wheel hub broke, was regarded as crucial to determining whether the 2002 tragedy ...
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Police sets upcountry buses to one trip
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
The Kampala Extra Police spokesman, Simeo Nsubuga, told journalists that accidents increase as bus drivers try to make several trips to the countryside ...
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Daily Crime Incidents for December 18, 2007.
By spdk(spdk)
A case of Non Fatal Road accident has been registered in Barke Police Station. On 17/12/2007 at 1645 hrs at Lalbhag Mangalore one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-C-9933 drove his in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against a ...
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North Carolina State Highway Patrol Urges Motor Vehicle Drivers to ...
By Michael A. DeMayo
... motorcyclists, truck drivers, and bus drivers comply with state DWI laws through North Carolina's "Booze It and Lose It" campaign and the nationwide Combined Accident Reduction Effort program through the holiday season. ...
North Carolina Injury Lawyer Blog - http://www.northcarolinainjurylawyerblog.com/

CAR ACCIDENTS, MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS, TRUCK ACCIDENTS AND BUS ...
By Law Offices of David H. Greenberg
Motor vehicle accidents such as car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents and bus accidents affect us all. Every year thousands of drivers and passengers are involved in crashes and are injured or killed in these wrecks. ...
Los Angeles Injury Lawyer Blog - http://www.los-angeles-injury-lawyer-blog.com/

In recent accidents, NYU bus drivers not sure about protocol - NYU ...
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Bikers to use bus lanes
A new scheme to allow motorcyclists to use bus lanes in Plymouth is under way in a bid to reduce accidents.
Teletext West Country News - http://www.teletext.co.uk/news/regional/west-country/default.aspx

Road accidents claims 20 lives
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
By Natasha Joseph and Sapa Twenty people, including a child, were killed in car accidents in the Western Cape this weekend, according to the department of ...
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Re: busted for moving between cars at Woodlawn...... (BLE-NIMX)
The employer shall test any other safety-sensitive employee whose performance could have contributed to the accident. The decision must be made using the best information available at the time. Non-fatal accidents involving a bus, ...
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Firsts in Ecuador
By khal994(khal994)
Luckilly it was only the cheap one Taylor gave me. 9. Been in a car accident. Actually within 7 days I had ironically been in THREE!!!!!! Van or bus accidents. Nobody was ever hurt. Pictured is the bus accident.
ECUADOR NEWS - http://kevinhalloran.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for December 17, 2007.
By spdk(spdk)
KA-02-C-8694 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against a KSRTC bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-F-2220 driven by one Maruti H. (29). As a result driver of car Gopinatha, Shivalingayya and Chennamma who were traveling ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

Weekly Toll: Death In The American Workplace
By Tammy(Tammy)
WNY bus driver killed in accident at school district garage EVANS, NY - The school bus driver killed in western New York this morning has been identified as 58-year-old Brenda Chiappetta of the town of Evans. ...
Weekly Toll - http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/

School bus VS dump truck crash- View #1
By rss@youtube.com (stormchaser3751)
Road accidents can happen anywhere in the world but the US has seen a whole lot of them. About 10:30 am on October 21, 1999, in Schoharie County, New York, a Kinnicutt Bus Company school bus was transporting 44 students, ...
YouTube :: Tag // accidents - http://youtube.com/rss/tag/+accidents.rss

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