Saturday, July 26, 2008

07/26/08

Two Motorcyclists Killed in Overnight Accidents
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
A motorcyclist was killed Monday evening when he collided with a charter bus in Hughesville, in
Charles County. The police have determined the cause of the ...
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Commercial drivers must be fit for road
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
... investigators said the fatal accident probably was due to an "undiagnosed sleep disorder." Twenty-two bus passengers died in 1999 when the driver of a ...
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Drivers truckin' despite disabilities
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
A spokesman for the state Department of Highway Safety could not be reached for comment as to whether
Connecticut has had any truck or bus accidents ...
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17 killed as truck rams bus in northern India
International Herald Tribune - France
Deadly road accidents are common in India and are often caused by poor driving, old and overloaded vehicles and bad roads.
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At least 23 people killed in three highway accidents in Mexico
Xinhua - China
The bus driver and eight passengers suffered non life-threatening injuries. The second accident also happened in the state of Coahuila. ...
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Peru: 25 killed, 60 injured in Lima bus crash
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
According to RPP Noticias, there have been four bus accidents in
Peru this month which have left almost 60 people dead. Specialists affirm that this is due ...
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BRT blocked; ply buses on left only, say residents
Times of India - India
A pedestrian signal put up there is useless as hardly anyone stops there and accidents of villagers have become common," said Choudhary Hira Singh, ...
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Medically Unfit Truckers Roam the Highways and Authorities Know It
eFluxMedia - USA
Every year numerous accidents take place on highways nationwide because truck and bus drivers faint or suffer seizures and heart attacks while behind the ...
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More bus lanes planned for the London Road and Walcot Street
By David Dixon(David Dixon)
The simple fact is that the present bus lane on
London Road is highly dangerous. At least three serious accidents in as many years, and any widening or extension of the bus lane must involve road widening. ...
Walcot Ward - http://walcot.blogspot.com/

The Importance Of Using Regulation Compliant Brakes
By kadrovik
Brake failure was a major factor in a recent spate of bus accidents, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. “Buses involved in these accidents are clearly old and not roadworthy,” he told a SA Bus Operators Association (Saboa) ...
Kadrovik - http://kadrovik.okmedix.com/

Worker road deaths remain a "gaping hole"
By MarkyB(MarkyB)
The fatal injury statistics we get are just for workplace accidents – they don’t include work-related road deaths, and we believe there are between 800 and 1000 of them each year. Other countries do include road deaths among their ...
Health and Safety News - http://handsnews.blogspot.com/

A small request....
By Born Again Barbie...making my Mormon Dreams...(Born Again Barbie...making my Mormon Dreams...)
No bus accidents in over 4+ years of combined CDL driving. 9. I have more endurance than anyone I know...just lack the discipline (working on it). 10. My eyes are pretty, my fingers are long, my smile is like a the joker, ...
The Born Again Barbie - http://thebornagainbarbie.blogspot.com/

Sick truckers causing fatal accidents
By GateHouse Media, Inc.
He confided to investigators that he “gets winded” walking to his mailbox but has no problem driving a passenger bus. —A Virginia trucker with a prosthetic leg from a farm accident more than 10 years ago is permitted to drive tanker ...
The Register-Mail Home RSS - http://www.galesburg.com/homepage

Japanese Cabinet Secretary Concerned Over Olympics After China Bus ...
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
... "various" incidents taking place in China will not hamper a smooth holding of the upcoming Beijing Olympics, following fatal bus explosions in China's ...
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Israelis hit by new digger attack
BBC News - UK
A bus and a number of cars were hit during the incident. Some cars were crushed and one was turned on its roof. Witnesses say an armed civilian first shot ...
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Transit Systems Are Not Well-integrated Into Local Emergency Plans
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Local governments also have the primary responsibility of responding to emergency incidents and ordering an evacuation, if necessary, and transportation and ...
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Unhealthy Truckers Levy Toll On Lives
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
By HOPE YEN AP WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the
United States carry commercial driver's licenses despite also ...
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Copycat bulldozer attack in Jerusalem
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Tim Butcher in
Jerusalem The attack appeared to be a deliberate repeat of an incident on July 2 when another East Jerusalem Arab used a bulldozer to ...
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Putting The China Bus Blast Into Context
By Stephen Webb
Forty-one police officers were injured during that incident, which was reportedly caused by a dispute between farmers and a private rubber company, Xinhua stated. The
Kunming and Menglian incidents are most likely unrelated. ...
World View - http://blogs.abcnews.com/worldview/

5:13 AM, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 30 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

Global Security Brief
US and NATO missile strikes continued to exact a heavy toll in Afghanistan, with at least 13 Afghans killed in two incidents over the weekend that Afghan officials said were mistakes. One NATO soldier was also killed in the eastern ...
In Homeland Security - http://www.inhomelandsecurity.com/

Hooliganism Is Ever Present In The US
By Jeff Harbert
Few incidents of fan trouble can be noted in the
US, but you can now add a tally to the number of incidents that have occurred. A major confrontation took place during half-time at a pre-season friendly between the Columbus Crew and ...
Bleacher Report - World Football - http://www.bleacherreport.com/

Answers to questions
By Frustrated Commuter(Frustrated Commuter)
For reference intercity service performance has risen from 80% at the start of the franchise in 2004 to 85% now and the aim is to maintain that improving trend and avoid big disruptive incidents through improvements made by Network Rail ...
I hate National Express - http://ihatenationalexpress.blogspot.com/

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Kunming Bus Bombs: Smoke and Mirrors
Newsweek - USA
Photos of a bus with mangled sides and glass sprayed across the street went up on news sites. There have also been unconfirmed reports in
Kunming's local ...
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All aboard the big shiny bus
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Dakota County officials got an up-close look at the new North American Bus Industries 60-foot BRT hybrid articulated bus that was in Apple Valley last ...
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• Why BlackBerry When You Can Take the Bus?
Washington Post - United States
But its simpler, terrestrial methods never disappear -- like bus tours. Earlier this summer, the labor-funded Americans United for Change chose to beat up ...
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Study: Medically unfit truck, bus drivers get licenses
Detroit Free Press - United States
WASHINGTON -- Some US truck and bus drivers receiving full federal disability benefits continue to obtain commercial driver's licenses, a government ...
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Study: Ill Truckers Behind Wrecks
TIME - USA
Bill Haber, File / AP (WASHINGTON) — Tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the
United States have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells behind ...
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China: No Link Between Bus Bombings, Olympics
Voice of America - USA
By Daniel Schearf Chinese officials say the investigation into Monday's twin bus bombings in southern
China has shown no link with terrorists targeting the ...
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Bus-Tech, Inc. Completes Testing Under The IBM System Storage ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bus-Tech, Inc., a leading provider of Virtual Tape solutions for attachment to IBM mainframes, today announces that the Mainframe Data ...
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Riding the Bus to the Hydro Races
KNDO/KNDU - Yakima,WA,USA
Law Enforcement recommends people take the bus to the hydro races this year. Police say some parents or friends are parking on highway 240 to pick up their ...
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Anti-Bush bus rolls into Portland, Salem
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
by Harry Esteve, The Oregonian It's called the "National Bush Legacy Bus," but -- oh, the irony -- it's as anti-President Bush as a bus can be. ...
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Metro Transit Launches NexTrip GPS Bus Tracker
FOX 9 News - Minneapolis,MN,USA
MINNEAPOLIS -- Metro Transit publicly launched its NexTrip real-time bus departure tool on Tuesday, a few months after its April tests launch online. ...
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Walking School Bus News
By rod
Welcome back to Term Three on the Orange Grove Walking School Bus! We hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday and look forward to seeing all our smiling bus commuters soon! Don’t forget, if you would like to try Driving or ...
Orange Grove - http://www.orangegrove.org.au

School Gas Bus News
By PeaceMBW
It seems we don't have enough money to pay for gas for the school buses for the entire school year.
KingstonSprings.org - http://www.kingstonsprings.org/

Riders to city, GRTC: Don't ax bus routes
BY WILL JONES Times-Dispatch Staff Writer Richmond residents pleaded with the a City Council committee and the GRTC Transit System yesterday not to eliminate nine bus routes as a way to address budget concerns from rising fuel costs. ...
inRich News Main - http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.html

Anti-Bush bus rolls into Portland, Salem
By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian
The Bush Legacy Bus It's called the "National Bush Legacy Bus," but -- oh, the irony -- it's as anti-President Bush as a bus can be. And it rolls into
Oregon tomorrow as part of a nationwide tour. Its sponsors...
Breaking News Updates from Portland... - http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/

Bus stops war lord Karadzic
BUTCHER of Bosnia Radovan Karadzic's 12 years on the run ended when he was arrested on a bus.
Daily Star :: News Feed - http://www.dailystar.co.uk

HC seeks mechanism on monetary relief for Blueline victims
Hindu - Chennai,India
... the Bench also sought a detailed report from the government explaining the factors responsible for the repeated blueline bus accidents taking place on ...
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Driver gets weekend jail time for school bus collision
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
By DON MACPHERSON A Fredericton woman who struck a school bus and fled the scene of the accident last year will spend her weekends behind bars for the next ...
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15 killed in bus accident in India-administered Kashmir
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The accident occurred when the driver lost control of the bus at Sher-Bibi near the Banihal pass, about 80 kilometres south of the state's summer capital, ...
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Indian bus plunge kills 15, injures 24
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The bus, packed with migrant workers, sped off a mountain highway into a 200-metre deep gorge, police officer Showkat Ahmed said on Wednesday. Bus accidents ...
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At least 23 killed Colombia bus accident
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Bogota, July 23 (IANS) At least 23 people have been killed and 21 injured when a bus they were travelling in slid into a 500-metre deep ravine in ...
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At least 22 dead in Colombian bus accident
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Poor weather and reduced visibility were cited as factors in the accident on the mountain road, where the high number of accidents has earned it the ...
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Mob protest against frequent accidents, RAF deployed
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
Trouble erupted when a mob from the nearby Ranidanga Bazaar area reached the accident spot and ransacked the killer bus after Singha had surrendered at the ...
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Vehicle Accident - Asia - Pakistan
A bus accident in Indian Kashmir has killed at least 15 people and left more than 20 injured. Police say the bus sped off a mountain highway into a 200-metre deep gorge in an area where accidents are common. ...
RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster... - http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert.php

15 killed in bus accident in India-administered Kashmir
By admin
spot while four succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital. Road accidents in mountainous regions like
Jammu and Kashmir are common in India. … Posted from Monsters and Critics.com - USA.
McHealth - http://madrascafeonline.com/McHealth

At least 23 killed in Colombia bus accident
By admin
Bogota, July 23 (IANS) At least 23 people have been killed and 21 injured when a bus they were travelling in slid into a 500-metre deep ravine in southwestern Colombia, EFE news agency reported Wednesday citing the police. The accident ...
IndiBlitz.com - http://www.indiblitz.com/

Despite Connection to Truck Accidents, Medically Unfit Drivers ...
By rreeves
Back in 2001, the government outlined several recommendations to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to tackle the growing number of truck and bus accidents that were taking place due to the poor health conditions of the ...
California Personal Injury Lawyer... - http://www.reeveslawblog.com

Sick Truck Drivers Causing Fatal Accidents
By PW_Plack
This story from the Associated Press details some of the statistics, and some anecdotes, about truckers and bus drivers who find ways to sneak past legal checks for dangerous medical conditions. I almost put this in "Off-Topic," but I ...
Rotary Wing Forum - http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum

Speeding Blueline bus kills man
By IANS
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) A 25-year-old man was killed Wednesday when a speeding Blueline bus knocked his motorcycle down in south Delhi, the police said. Identified as Hemant, the man was hit by the bus near the Badarpur border area in ...
Thaindian News - http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal

Your Gateway to India
By Mayank Austen Soofi(Mayank Austen Soofi)
Reflective getaway from the city’s chaos and confusion; by Mayank Austen Soofi Viewpoint – Mrs. Sheila Dikshit’s Blueline Blues Here's why Delhi Chief Minister would rather walk than board a city bus; by Mayank Austen Soofi ...
The Delhi Walla - http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/

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