Monday, November 10, 2008

NOVEMBER 10,2008

Joanna Jesh buses allowed back on metro's road
GMA news.tv - Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
But he admitted that except for a stern reminder to be careful and to avoid accidents, there is not much of a guarantee the Joanna Jesh buses will figure in ...
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Accident in Malaysia, damages awarded here?
Straits Times - Singapore
An earlier case involved the death of a 43-year-old Singaporean woman when a tour bus she was in crashed into the rear of a lorry on the North-South ...
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Death in our highways
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
Some road accidents are more sensational than others… like the one where a prominent eye doctor was killed when his car was sideswiped by a bus that was ...
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LTO mulls stricter qualifications for license applicants
GMA news.tv - Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
Last week, road accidents involving buses occurred in Bukidnon and Cavite provinces and along the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Mandaluyong City. ...
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Bus driver cost TUSD $4.5M, is still at the wheel
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
He was written up for several minor accidents and received at least four tickets from police, including one for a head-on collision, before the 2006 crash. ...
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Bus accident at Kufri
By Shimlaite(Shimlaite)
Bus mishap near Kufri at Shimla left 45 dead. Only 4 people survived the accident. As reported in the media, the driver was changing the CD in a moving bus and failed to negotiate a curve. It has also been reported that the driver did ...
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Better School Bus Flashing Lights Needed
By AvtoRentaCar
One recent think tank participant mentioned this after reading in the local paper of three such incidents involving city buses in a two-week period. That is just to many accidents to accept. Having been in the bus washing business along ...
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Robbers Take Thousands From a Bus Company in New York’s Chinatown
New York Times - United States
By MICHAEL WILSON Five masked young men robbed a Chinatown bus company’s office at gunpoint on Sunday afternoon, binding five people with duct tape and ...
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Guatemala bus fire leaves 16 dead
BBC News - UK
The bodies of at least 16 people have been found in the burnt-out shell of a bus on a rural road in eastern Guatemala, police officers say. ...
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Nine injured in bus, tractor trailer crash
Troy Record - Troy,NY,USA
NEW BALTIMORE - State Police are investigating a motor vehicle accident which left nine people with minor injuries early Sunday morning after their bus ...
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80 children injured in Greater Noida school bus accident
Hindustan Times - India
At least 80 children were seriously injured when their school bus turned turtle after hitting a car in this suburb of the national capital on Monday. ...
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District 51's growth calls for three new bus routes
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
The final count Oct. 1 confirmed the heavy bus loads, said Dave Montoya, director of transportation services for District 51, with no signs of tapering off. ...
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Public bus service could come to Washington
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
By STEVE STEIN It isn't just around the corner, but public bus service could be coming to Washington. Washington officials and Peoria-based CityLink have ...
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Berkeley high-speed transit not yet a done deal
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Measure KK, which would have required voter approval before bus-only lanes could be installed on city streets, was rejected by 77 percent of the voters ...
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Fargo bus ridership increases
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
The increase is attributed in part to additional service to shopping areas and North Dakota State University students taking the bus to and from classes ...
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Company to offer Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg luxury bus service
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Begun by railroad entrepreneurs Henry Posner III and Robert Pietandrea, the bus route will compete with a once-daily Amtrak train to Harrisburg, ...
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Bus Driver Fired After Kicking Girl, 9, Off Bus
FOXNews - USA
Police in Shrewsbury say they're investigating whether to press charges against a bus driver who dropped off a 9-year-old girl on a busy highway more than a ...
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Children scramble out of flipped over school bus
TOWN OF WHEATON — Six children and a school bus driver scrambled out of a broken windshield after the Chippewa Yellow Bus they were on flipped over this morning.
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Last Chance to Have Your Say on Elimination of Westhampton 16 Bus ...
By Jonah_H
There has been lots of discussion lately about transportation, but your ride the GRTC Westhampton 16, your final chance to have your say on the elimination of the GRTC bus route is coming up Nov. 18: The third and final informal town ...
Near West End News - http://nearwestendnews.net/
Microsoft’s Work Bus Equipped With PCs
Supposedly this is some kind of Microsoft work bus that comes with built in PCs so you can work before you get to work. To be honest, it looks like one of those tech busses that goes from location to location demonstrating new software ...
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7 hurt in another QC bus accident; driver missing
MANILA, Philippines - At least seven passengers were injured after the minibus they were riding turned on its side at the boundary of Manila and Quezon City early Monday.
GMA News.tv - http://www.gmanews.tv/
Bodies found in burnt-out bus
By newsboy22
I found this on Reuters Top News . It’s not clear how the fire started, or whether the victims were already dead when it broke out, but firemen found gasoline containers at the scene, and said there was no evidence any of the passengers ...
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Bus crash in SAfrica kills 27: police
Africasia - London,UK
Road accidents are one of the main causes of death in South Africa. In May, a bus accident in the southern province of Eastern Cape killed at least 28 ...
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Accidents involving buses between US, Mexico
Houston Chronicle - United States
2, 2008: One person was killed and dozens of other passengers were injured, including a woman whose right arm was amputated, when a bus traveling from ...
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23 killed in four road accidents in Rajasthan
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
Seven people were killed and 13 others wounded when a passenger bus collided head-on with another on the NH 15 near Mayawali village, they said. ...
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CHP writes more than 20000 tickets to drivers breaking hands-free ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Cell phone distractions were the leading cause of accidents from 2005 to 2007. The fine is $20 for the first offense.
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3 deadly accidents mar Bogor holiday weekend
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
The first accident happened at 3 am when a bus with failed brakes hit two cars while headed downhill along the Leuwimalang Cilember road in the Mega Mendung ...
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Drivers get amnesty for fake papers
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
... drivers at the bus terminal in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb. It was organised by the Transport Licensing Board as part of the efforts to reduce accidents. ...
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Four killed in two accidents
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
In the meantime, in St. Catherine a three year old girl and a 32 year old bus driver were killed when the bus in which they were travelling collided with a ...
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Haryana bus crushes man to death
A Pakistan News - Lahore,Pu,Pakistan
In previous instances, the Blueline buses of neighbouring Delhi have been accused of killing pedestrians but this is one of the first instances in Haryana. ...
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Rise in crime during coach crash
BBC News - UK
Ch Insp Maddox, who was in charge of dealing with the crash, said 25 officers were called to the incident. The bus, from a firm in Peterborough, ...
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Thug punches bus driver, attacks police
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
We're just finding too many incidents of armed encounters of a variety of different kinds," said Marc Pellerin, vice-president of the Winnipeg Police ...
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Bus strike continues as violence flares up
The Herald Eastern Cape - Port Elizabeth,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... Workers‘ Union (Thor), which has disrupted bus transport services, is continuing amid incidents of violence and threats to non-striking bus workers. ...
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Infant Dies 8 Days After Mother Was Crushed by Bus in the Bronx
New York Times - United States
The van pushed her into the path of a school bus, which also struck her, the police said. Dozens of bystanders rushed to lift the front of the bus and pull ...
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1 bus overturns on I-80 in crash with 2nd bus
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
State police say one bus overturned. Sgt. Julian Castellanos says the highway has one lane open. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Georgia Students Fall out of Bus
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Two University of Georgia students were taken to the hospital Thursday after falling out of the back doors of a campus bus, according to the Red and Black, ...
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Amsterdam offers criminals free bus tickets home
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The City of Amsterdam is making small-time crooks an offer that even a mafia don would find hard to refuse: free bus tickets home instead of jail time.
GMA News.tv - http://www.gmanews.tv/

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