7/10/08

Bus company who employed cheap Polish bus drivers behind string of ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Two bus operators employed scores of Polish drivers who could not speak English and forced them to work illegal hours leading to a string of accidents ...
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Cape Town braces for more flooding
Namibian - Windhoek,Namibia
Cape Town Metro Police registered about 44 accidents over the weekend, when rainfall exceeding 150mm in areas all over the peninsula. ...
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Slow city centre bus lane to 5mph
News & Star - Carlisle,England,UK
Further to the recent unfortunate accident in the bus lane on Lowther Street, (News & Star, July 5) it would seem to me that the simple and cheapest answer ...
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Arrest Made in Deadly Bus Stop Crash
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... accidents as there have been here, it's happened before it's going to happen again -- just be careful out there," said Dave Fontana, who rides the bus. ...
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Bibb schools get new bus chief
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
Last year, two buses were shot at with BB guns, and in 2006 two students in separate accidents were hit by cars and killed near their school bus stops. ...
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Killer drivers in state to face murder rap
Times of India - India
Most bus accidents happen this way. Such drivers will now face murder charges under Section 302 IPC. VIP Road and EM Bypass, the two most dangerous roads in ...
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CHEAP POLISH BUS DRIVER CAUSED CARNAGE
UK Express - UK
They worked for up to 31 consecutive days without a break and the Manchester bus firm’s vehicles were in a catalogue of serious accidents. ...
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Louisville makes another list of "Best Cities to Live In"
WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA
As a ER physician, i can honestly say that louisville has some of the most ingnorant drivers in the US. road accidents and hospital admissions for such ...
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Twenty four die in Bangladesh road accidents
Zee News - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
The rest of the dead were travelling in the other wrecked bus, he said adding that more than 50 passengers were injured in the accident and were being ...
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Two killed in hit-and-run accidents in Delhi
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Vinod Kumar was hit near Burari ground as he disembarked from a Delhi Transport Corporation bus. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced ...
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Pedestrian Accident Compensation Claim
By Personal Injury Claims.
If you are involved in a road traffic accident as a pedestrian which was the fault of a car, bus, lorry or other vehicle, the pedestrian compensation claim can be made against the drivers’ insurance company. If you are hit by a vehicle ...
No Win No Fee Compensation Claims - http://www.claims4negligence.co.uk

What’s the hurry?
By J-M
Well, not quite. Bicyclists don’t have a prayer of surviving impact with a 2800 VW or - heaven help us - a city bus. Already in 2008 five bicyclists have died in traffic accidents…almost one a month! The accidents are bizarre. ...
creativeoptions.com - http://creativeoptions.com/Blog

Child Killed in SUV Pedestrian Accident; Family Thanks Attorneys ...
By Betsy Boggs
He had exited his school bus that had missed the normal bus stop and was let out with other children down the street from their normal stop. In an instant our world changed. Was anyone at fault: the school bus driver, the person driving ...
InjuryBoard Local Blogs - http://www.injuryboard.com/regional-blogs/

Lunes-Crazy Bus Day
By rmunger
We stayed on the bus-not wanting to have to pay for another bus fare-then followed the crowd to the next stop, hopped on another bus, and crammed in. This time, we got front row seats of the driving. No accidents on that bus, ...
Roger's Spain Weblog - http://rmunger.wordpress.com

Bus operators who employed cheap Polish drivers behind string of ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
It led to a string of incidents and eventually cost workman Martin Pilling, 27, his life as he worked by the side of a road in a cherry picker in Manchester ...
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Fear of calling a terrorist a terrorist
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
Accompanying picture captions read like a shuttered window: "Bulldozer crashes into Jerusalem bus." "A man seized control of a bulldozer in Jerusalem today ...
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Bus driver rehired
BCLocalNews - Victoria,BC,Canada
By Brent Richter - Maple Ridge News A Coast Mountain Bus Company employee fired after a safety incident in late June is back at work after his union and ...
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Metro Communities
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Ten incidents were reported in four cities. Police are looking for a white man in his late teens or early 20s, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall, ...
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Bizarre needle-point armed hold-up at BP Kadina
Yorke Peninsula Country Times - Kadina,South Australia,Australia
Three cars were seized for seven days in Kadina for separate hoon driving incidents during the week. Thought to coincide with the beginning of school ...
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Ramping up, July 8
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"I've had small incidents where a car will come up to me and someone will start yelling, but never where someone pulls up in front of me and blatantly slams ...
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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : Philippines
By Global Security News
Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : Philippines more info GlobalIncidentMap.com provides details of this incident . To view full incident details you will need to click on the above link.
Close Protection Forum and Surveillan... - http://www.closeprotectionworld.co.uk

The trip to the library - A Saga !!
By Gauri(Gauri)
Reached the bus stop without any further incidents and as luck would have it, the frequency of the mini buses seemed to be extraordinarily bad today. “Why no buses for so long ?” queried the younger sibling. “Oh Gawd. ...
- http://tiny-tidbits.blogspot.com/

12:32 PM, US-70 W, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, Boiling St
Traffic is traveling at 29 MPH at: US 70 BUS W; MM 94.4; Boiling St.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

How NOT To Get On a Bus!
By David(David)
In good time and without too many incidents, none really, we arrived in Paignton Bus Station. Paignton is the 2nd biggest town in Torbay and lots of passengers get off here. Lots get on as well, bit like Union Street and the same ...
busdriving - http://busdriving.blogspot.com/

Two Robbers Held up Passenger Bus in Agusan del Sur; Cash Money ...
By Ben
Police admitted the rising of robbery incidents in the past few weeks now folowwing the rising of the prices of rice, basic commodities, gasoline that resulted to rise of prices of almost everything with salaries still at stand still.
Mindanao - http://mindanao.com/blog

Safety board to issue finding on Atlanta bus crash
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Investigators say the bus driver mistakenly drove onto an exit ramp that dead-ends on a bridge at Northside Drive and I-75, sending the bus plunging off the ...
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Rider groups says bus service not keeping pace
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY STEVE RITEA | steve.ritea@newsday.com Bus service has not kept pace with increases in city riders, a study by the Straphangers Campaign shows, ...
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GR commission signs off on full-time police officer at the bus station
MLive.com - MI,USA
Grand Rapids city commissioners today approved a plan to assign a full-time police sergeant to the station where most bus systems passengers make their ...
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Shuttle bus replaces L to O'Hare for July
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Beginning today, CTA riders who use the L to get to or from O'Hare will face delays -- and a ride on a shuttle bus between the airport and the ...
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Bomb discovered on bus
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
A BOMB was found on a bus transporting 12 Indian roadworkers in Afghanistan yesterday, a governor said, a day after a suicide attack on the Indian embassy ...
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Orange County man, accused of abducting his son, dies after bus in ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A Lake Forest man accused of shooting his estranged wife and abducting his 9-year-old son died after being struck by a bus in Mexico, ending a days-long run ...
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Driver Charged With DUI After Deadly Crash At Flamingo Bus Stop
KTNV Las Vegas - Las Vegas,NV,USA
A truck lost control Monday morning and slammed into a bus stop killing one person. The accident happened while two women were waiting for the bus near ...
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Sheriff Donates Bus
WHIOtv.com - Dayton,OH,USA
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly donated a bus Tuesday afternoon to the Juvenile Detention Center in Springfield. "This bus is surplus ...
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Z-Bus would like to see more riders
Zanesville Times Recorder - Zanesville,OH,USA
South East Area Transit and Z-Bus have seen a 10-percent increase in ridership in recent years, but officials would like to see that number go higher. ...
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Gas prices lead more people to take the bus
Dickinson Press - Dickinson,ND,USA
AP - Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Higher gasoline prices have helped boost the number of bus riders in North Dakota's largest cities. In Bismarck, Bis-Man Transit ...
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Bus crash suspect's trial will stay in Willmar
A Minnesota judge has denied Olga Franco's request to move her trial to the Twin Cities.
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Safety board: signs factor in Atlanta bus crash
Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board say confusing highway signs, driver error and a lack of passenger safety features contributed to the deaths of five college baseball players in an Atlanta bus crash last year.
KOMO - News - National & World News - http://www.komonews.com/news/national

Safety board: signs factor in Atlanta bus crash
WASHINGTON: The National Transportation Safety Board put heavy blame on the Georgia Department of Transportation today for an Atlanta bus crash last year that killed five college baseball players, saying confusing highway signs were a ...
Local News - http://www.ohio.com/news

Family Files Suit Against Bus Company Involved in Fatal Bush Crash
A pregnant Houston woman killed in a bus accident last week was buried Tuesday, the same day her family filed a lawsuit against the bus company.
Local News for MyFox Houston - http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox

Magna CARTA: Media, Which Bus Were You On?
By Joe Lance
The bus drivers to whom I had spoken just a few minutes earlier were less than annoyed, if only because they were less than informed. “We don’t know what’s going on in there,” one laughed. “We’re always the last to hear about anything. ...
Chattarati - Chattanooga news... - http://chattarati.com