Wednesday, January 9, 2008

1/9/08

Commuters unhappy with transit
Burnaby Now - Burnaby,British Columbia,Canada
1, transit fares rose by six per cent on average, with cash fares seeing the biggest increases. The price of a one-way, one-zone ticket for an adult now ...
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Chicago transit problems will affect entire state
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
As a Central Illinois resident, I am appalled by negative, insular statements regarding adequate
Chicago transit funding. It is not a matter of Chicago ...
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Green government should begin with transit
Burnaby Now - Burnaby,British Columbia,Canada
But the raising of transit fares seems very counterproductive. At a time when the rest of the country is trying to enhance the reputation of public transit, ...
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2 mass transit funding bills up for House vote
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Ray Long | Tribune staff reporter January 9, 2008 SPRINGFIELD—Speaker Michael Madigan predicted the House will pass two mass transit funding solutions ...
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Transit censors
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
BY STEVEN T. JONES Is the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency infringing on the free speech rights of transit riders? ...
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Government of Canada and City of Brampton help shift AcceleRide ...
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) - Ottawa,ON,Canada
BRAMPTON — The AcceleRide bus rapid transit system moved forward today after the Government of Canada formalized its $95 million investment by signing a ...
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Work is Underway to Makeover Transit Avenue
KMEG 14 - Sioux City,IA,USA
Transit Avenue is getting a makeover. The street will get new roads, water systems and storm sewers. Work is already underway, but when it will be finished ...
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Ottawa hands Brampton $95M for rapid bus service
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
In a move being touted as a transit revolution for Brampton, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered today on Ottawa's promise to invest $95 million ...
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Hawaii panel to debate transit vehicle options
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
A long-simmering debate over plans for
Honolulu's mass transit system is expected to heat up again Thursday when a City Council panel considers what type of ...
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Top News: Commuter Rail Plan Stalls
By rss@masstransitmag.com (By Larry Sandler,...
Divide over funding for trains, buses means line now unlikely to start in 2010.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

City seeks Southwest Transit Commission citizen representative
By MFrancisco
During his nine years with the Southwest Transit Commission, Moeller has seen ridership increase steadily to serve over 1 million riders in 2007. Revenues have also increased, customer satisfaction has enjoyed a high rating and bike ...
Chaska Herald - Newspaper and... - http://www.chaskaherald.com

Transit on the move
By Patrick O’Brien and Bethany Jaeger Editor’s note: Welcome Patrick O’Brien, our new Public Affairs Reporting intern from the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he’s earning his master’s. Before hearing a word of testimony at ...
Local - MySpace News - http://news.myspace.com/local

Transit director to propose replacing all buses
By sstewart@bhamnews.com
David Hill, executive director of the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority, will unveil a new transit plan this afternoon that includes entirely replacing the bus fleet within two years, offering Sunday bus service and also ...
Breaking News from The Birmingham... - http://blog.al.com/spotnews/

Dallas transit will divert funds for Irving, Rowlett lines
The Irving and Rowlett rail projects should be delivered intact and on time, DART officials said at a meeting Tuesday. But keeping those commitments will involve spending as much as $350 million earmarked for projects in downtown Dallas ...
RedTram News Search Engine |... - http://en.redtram.com/

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Data Recorder Found in Utah Bus Wreckage
The Associated Press -
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators found a data recorder and video equipment in the wreckage of a tour bus that may help them determine why it careered off ...
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Indian team bus reportedly hits car
Rediff - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The Indian cricket team seems to have stumbled to yet another controversy while on way to Canberra after their team bus reportedly sideswiped a car parked ...
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Utah Charter Bus Crash Toll: 9 Killed
The Associated Press -
MEXICAN HAT, Utah (AP) — With no cell phone service in the remote stretch of road where their tour bus rolled down an embankment, the uninjured flagged down ...
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Deer Valley bus-crash victims mourned
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Some of the 100 people in the gym held hands, others wiped away tears as they paused to remember their classmates killed and injured in a bus crash Sunday ...
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Too little sleep for bus drivers
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Long-distance bus drivers at one of
Cape Town's busiest ranks claim that they only get to sleep for five hours before taking on a 1 181 km journey to ...
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Metro Offers Free Bus Rides to Make Up for Glitch
Washington Post - United States
By Lena H. Sun Metro will offer free rides to bus passengers next Sunday and until noon Monday to make up for thousands of riders who paid with electronic ...
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Public transport users face 5% hike in bus and rail fares
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Fares on all Bus Eireann, Iarnrod Eireann, DART and
Dublin Bus services are increasing by an average of 5%. The move follows a 4% rise in LUAS fares that ...
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Guangdong bus crash death toll rises to 11
Xinhua - China
8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a bus accident in southern Guangdong Province rose to eleven after an injured passenger died in hospital on Monday night, ...
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Strike hits bus services
The Press Association -
The second of four 24-hour strikes by hundreds of bus drivers in a row over working hours will disrupt services. More than 370 workers at the Wilts and ...
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PAF bus attack: plotter’s arrest claimed
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
LAHORE, Jan 8: Intelligence agents on Tuesday claimed arresting an Al Qaeda-linked militant and six of his associates in connection with an attack on a bus ...
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News: Friends of Maine Ice Hockey Bus Trip to Vermont
The Friends of Maine Hockey is organizing a bus trip to see the Black Bears in action in a two-game series at the University of Vermont. This is a great chances to see the Black Bear in action on the road.
CSTV - Hockey - http://www.cstv.com

School bus, van collide in Brecknock
A van struck the rear of a school bus carrying 56 children to Brecknock Elementary School Tuesday morning, but none of the students was seriously injured, police said.State police at Ephrata said three children on the bus suffered minor ...
LancasterOnline - News - http://www.lancasteronline.com/

Survivor recalls terror of bus crash in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY -- Richard Scarborough was watching a movie on his laptop. The next moment, he felt the tour bus skid off a curve and roll over in southeastern Utah and heard the windows explode.
/news/state from www.nctimes.com - http://www.nctimes.com/

Officers Fear Bus Initiative Jeopardizes Public Safety
Some Metro Police officers say that public safety is being put at risk while they are forced to distribute bus passes known as Q-Cards. Reporter Isiah Carey has the Only on FOX details including the response from Metro Police ...
Local News for MyFox Houston - http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox

Data Recorder Found in Utah Bus Wreckage
Investigators found a data recorder and video equipment in the wreckage of a tour bus that may help them determine why it careered off a remote two-lane highway and rolled down an embankment, killing nine people, authorities said ...
National News for MyFox Cleveland - http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox

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Police: Girl Inappropriately Touched At Dayton Bus Stop
WHIOtv.com - Dayton,OH,USA
The latest incident happened Tuesday morning on
Virginia Avenue as a girl was walking to her bus stop. Police said the girl, who is under the age of 15, ...
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Kokua Line
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
In the future, provide details on what exactly happened, the date and time of the incident, the location and the direction of the bus, and the bus number. ...
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Edmonton transit system tucking in far too early
The Gateway - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... the bus, which, unlike your car, is still running. This may not be ideal, but at least it would cut down on the number of incidents of impaired driving. ...
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Lessons from the Hotel Savera New Year incident
By Ananthakrishnan G.
A few years ago, a young woman working in the US Consulate at Gemini died, because she tried to avoid a lot of gravel piled on the roadside off Kodambakkam High Road near Palmgrove, skidded and was run over by a bus following close ...
The Media Blog - http://digitaljourno.wordpress.com

Sunday’s column (a day late)
By Charlie
How does something like this happen? Isn’t there a policy in place to prevent incidents like this from occurring? Did no one notice a screaming child sitting on a bus parked 100 feet from the front door of Greene Lamp’s facility? ...
What I See - http://ckraebel.encblogs.com

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4 killed in traffic accidents since Tuesday morning
Jerusalem Post - Israel
In Jaffa, a six-year-old boy fell under a bus he descended from, and was run over. He later died of his wounds. Several hours earlier, a 53-year-old man was ...
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Utah bus crash stuns Valley
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
A few minutes later, another bus carrying skiers headed home to
Phoenix arrived to help care for the injured. The cause of the accident is still under ...
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Storm brings moisture but creates road havoc
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Few major accidents were reported, but numerous minor fender benders slowed things down considerably. At Hayden and Thomas roads in
Scottsdale, ...
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Light amid horror
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Sunday night's bus accident in
Utah was a heartbreaker. The bus was full of skiers heading back to Phoenix after a trip to Telluride, Colo. ...
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Bus company had 'satisfactory' safety rating
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
The bus company involved in Sunday's fatal crash in
Utah has been involved in 10 accidents in 30 months, but regulators say the company is safe and that ...
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The Boys on the Bus . . . Tales from roadies past & present
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
Usually, the latter is never the case and we've been lucky enough in my time in Knoxville to not have to worry about any accidents or at least if we did, ...
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Traffic woes during drizzle
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
The situation can lead to serious accidents,” said Khan Bahadur, an official of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank. There are no shelters on most bus stops, ...
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8 killed in Utah bus crash
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
Arrow Stage has had seven bus crashes in the past two years, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration database. Four of those accidents ...
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It's not the roads, it's the motorists!
By Aput(Aput)
Ever since the bus accidents in Jelapang, I've been trying to figure out what exactly should be done to please the people who have been complaining that the toll plaza itself was in a dangerous area. I personally thought this was one ...
Speak! Or forever hold your peace - http://aput.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/

New Zealand Disasters
By lainey
Christchurch City Libraries has put together a comprehensive list of
New Zealand disasters from 1855 - 1995. Includes fires, floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, cyclones, aircraft accidents, rail and bus accidents, shipwrecks, ...
mimio connect - http://www.mimio.school.nz/2

Bus Operator in Victoria Bus Crash Had Multiple Citations
By rreeves
Now, new reports say the bus owner, which earlier went by the name Flores Charter and
Tours, settled a lawsuit in 2002 regarding an accident in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. In that accident at least 46 passengers were injured, although court ...
The Reeves Law Group - http://www.reeveslawblog.com

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Dallas transit may try to engineer public-private rail solution
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
"In the past few weeks, we've sent teams to the Bay area to meet with BART [transit] officials, and we've been to Denver to talk to that city," Mr. Thomas ...
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Transit analysis focuses on money
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville,NC,USA
Elisabeth Fetting, the project manager for KFH Group of
Maryland, said the Fayetteville Area System of Transit needs more employees, fewer bus delays, ...
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Transit Avenue Construction Schedule Controversy
KMEG 14 - Sioux City,IA,USA
Sioux City's Transit Avenue is getting a makeover: new roads, water systems and storm sewers. But while the project's already underway, it's construction ...
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Community remembers transit manager
Columbia Basin Herald - Moses Lake,WA,USA
By Candice Boutilier QUINCY - The Grant Transit Authority manager died in his
Quincy home Wednesday of a heart attack. John G. Escure, 58, is described as a ...
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Bar Transit Farmout: Phone Repair Work Is Still TWU's Call
Chief-Leader (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
By ARI PAUL An arbitrator has ruled that New York City Transit may not give the work of its Telephone Maintainers to workers outside the Transport Workers ...
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Fayetteville Leaders Discuss Transit System
NBC 17.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
More than 900 bus riders took part in the survey, which was part of a Management Performance Review of Fayetteville’s Transit System. ...
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Transit Police Seek Answers On Missing Union Money
Click 2 Houston.com - Houston,TX,USA
By Stephen Dean HOUSTON -- Police officers for the Metropolitan Transit Authority have removed their union's leadership amid an accounting scandal, ...
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Blagojevich rhetoric changes on sales tax for mass transit veto threat
Chicago Tribune - United States
Rod Blagojevich consistently has vowed to veto a proposed sales tax increase to fund mass transit in
Chicago and the suburbs. Today, the governor didn't ...
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Regional Transit cancels four bus routes with budget cuts
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Four
Sacramento Regional Transit District bus routes have been discontinued starting Monday, and service changes have been made to another 19 routes. ...
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RTA Delegation Reviews Rail and Retail Facilities in Hong Kong
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Middle East Company...
The Road and Transport Authority (RTA) delegation led by HE Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Dubai RTA visited the Kowloon Station and Mass Transit Rail (MTR) in Hong Kong to inspect its baggage handling ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

State Auditor’s independent audit of Sound Transit’s ...
Today the Washington State Auditor’s Office issued an accountability audit of Sound Transit that gives the agency a clean report on its compliance with a broad array of state laws and regulations regarding handling of public dollars and ...
Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org

Governor again urges Illinois lawmakers to pass transit funding plan
CHICAGO (AP) — With 13 days to go until the Chicago Transit Authority’s so-called “doomsday” service cuts and fare increases, Gov. Rod Blagojevich urged lawmakers to pass a long-term transit funding plan.
News/state from www.kcchronicle.com - http://www.kcchronicle.com/

Blagojevich Makes Appeal for Mass Transit Funding {audio}
... a long-term transit funding plan. The governor's news conference Monday afternoon included a cross-section of CTA, Metra and Pace riders he said would be hurt by the planned cuts - including students and people with disabilities. ...
WGN Radio News Feed - http://wgnradio.com

Dallas transit may try to engineer public-private rail solution
With rising construction costs threatening to delay proposed rail service to Irving and Rowlett, DART officials today will ask the agency's board to consider a radically new approach to building and operating future rail lines. ...
RedTram News Search Engine |... - http://en.redtram.com/

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Two Phoenix-area students among 9 killed in southern Utah bus wreck
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Amidst the wreckage of their bus,
Scarborough turned to two of his friends. "People were screaming, 'God, please this can't be happening. Where's my baby? ...
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Bus fares set to rise tomorrow
Irish Times - Ireland
Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann fares are going up tomorrow, in the latest round of public transport increases sanctioned by the Government before Christmas. ...
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The Guy With the Bus Is on a Roll
Washington Post - United States
But old-time McCainiacs are on board, the Dunkin' Donuts coffee is pouring, and the candidate is in the back of the bus, working his base -- the press corps ...
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Charter Bus Crash Kills 9 in Utah as Rain, Snow and Avalanches ...
New York Times - United States
On Sunday night, a charter bus carrying 51 people from a ski trip in Telluride, Colo., tumbled off an embankment on a rain-slicked road near Mexican Hat, ...
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Small rural hospital lends aid in bus crash tragedy
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
San Juan Hospital
is 72 miles north of Mexican Hat, where the Corporate Transportation 'N Tours bus rolled down a 40-foot embankment. ...
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ACLU criticizes plan to track RI grade-schoolers by planting ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The school and parents will be able to track students on the bus, and the district hopes the program will improve busing efficiency, ...
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2 Killed In Car, Bus Crash
MSNBC - USA
NEW YORK - Authorities say two people were killed early Sunday when their car collided with a public bus in Queens. Police said both occupants in the 1992 ...
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Valley Metro links bus riders with cell-friendly Web site
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Valley Metro is making it harder to miss the bus as it introduces a mobile-friendly version of its Web site for cell phones and mobile devices. ...
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1 MEXICAN HAT, UTAH Bus crash ki...
A ninth person died Monday after a new bus carrying skiers home from a Colorado resort plunged off a damp, twisting highway in southeastern Utah and landed 41 feet below with its tires ripped away and the roof destroyed. ...
National News - http://www.ohio.com/news/nation

Bus services hit by second strike
Bus services across the New Forest were hit again today as drivers went on strike.
This is Hampshire | Hampshire News - http://www.thisishampshire.net

Bus collides with car
FIRE crew attend incident in Abertillery.
South Wales Argus | Latest news - http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk

A close call for Bureau Valley bus riders
A near collision by a school bus and semi, north of Manlius on Route 40, ripped the mirror off the bus and broke several windows Monday afternoon. Ambulance personnel checked out the Bureau Valley School District students for any ...
News from www.bcrnews.com - http://www.bcrnews.com/

No injuries reported as school bus, SUV collide in South Brunswick
SOUTH BRUNSWICK: No one was seriously injured in accident involving a school bus and an SUV at about 5:20 pm Monday. The SUV was turning from Kingston Lane onto Major Road when it collided with a school bus carrying 15 students from ...
Home News Tribune - News - http://www.thnt.com

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Teens held in assault of deaf man on bus
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Investigators will look into whether these two suspects may have been involved in any other recent incidents on DDOT buses. The 17-year-old suspect is being ...
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Bus Driver Five Times Limit On Motorway
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
He was involved in two other incidents before being stopped by police in
Stirling. And on New Year's Day near Ayr, a 42-year-old biker was found to be ...
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Student driven out by racism
Wigan Observer - Wigan,England,UK
In one incident last summer he was accosted on a bus to Leigh by two young men with their girlfriends who started picking an argument with him and then ...
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Tornado Bus Driver Likely Under the Influence
InjuryBoard.com - Tampa,FL,USA
Information from that study would be useful since the Tornado Bus accident occurred at approximately 10:00 pm after the driver had been continuously driving ...
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Foggy pileups kill 2, involve more than 100 vehicles near Madison
Chicago Tribune - United States
The accidents happened on a five-mile stretch of Interstate 90 in both directions just southeast of
Madison. Around 2:30 pm, cars began braking when they ...
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20 die in two road accidents
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
In the first accident, as many as 12 people were killed and 13 sustained injuries when a Karachi-bound bus ran into a stationary trailer on the
Indus ...
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Two Killed As Dozens of Cars Pileup on Foggy Wisconsin Highway
FOX News - USA
Squad cars and tow trucks streamed toward the accidents as law enforcement agents directed drivers off the interstate. The accidents happened on a stretch ...
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Tornado Bus Driver Likely Under the Influence
By Drew Dixon
Information from that study would be useful since the Tornado Bus accident occurred at approximately
10:00 pm after the driver had been continuously driving for 17 hours. The police did not speculate on whether the amphetamines were to ...
Bentonville Personal Injury Lawyer - http://bentonville.injuryboard.com/

It's in the fog...there SOMETHING IN THE FOG!...
By Jay(Jay)
The dense fog in
Madison apparently caused numerous pileups, killing 2, and invovled more than 100 vehicles yesterday morning. You see, I'm an optimist. The way I see it, at least it was traffic accidents and not undead pirates.
The Rural Bus Route - http://theruralbusroute.com/

utah bus crash
By zihjcfjr(zihjcfjr)
27 days ago : 19 injured when bus crashes on snowy i-65 near
lafayette: 27 days ago : greyhound bus spins out of control. Utah department of public safety - highway safety bus accident photos. Utah vermont virginia washington west ...
iuvablsoqzcv - http://iyabvrapjexr.blogspot.com/

17/7/08
By Al M(Al M)
A: But just like when the bus accident happened where over 20 people died -- the licensing authority that was in charge of the buses should have resigned for giving the licence. But there were so many reasons why the bus was on the road ...
Bus Emergency news archive - http://busemergencynewsarchive.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for January 07, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
A case of
Non Fatal Road accident has been registered in Surathkal Police Station. On 06/01/2008 at 1000 hrs on NH 17 at Gokulanagara Kulai village Mangalore one Shrinivas Gowda driver of bus bearing Reg. No. ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

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