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Kei and Mai Maeda’s civil claims in response to the Aug. 9 motorcoach crash near Cedar City, Utah, are the first and possibly the only that will be filed, since other Japanese tourists left the U.S. unaware of their legal rights. The lawsuit claims the driver smoked pot for three hours the night before and had to sustain himself on energy drinks and nicotine gum while driving.
Read More →Officials believe the agency needs more qualified union mechanics to do the work on its buses. Too much of the maintenance work is being done by outside vendors, they claim.
Read More →Topics will include the incident command system, events involving terrorism and/or hazardous materials, interaction with the news media, communicating with the local community and families of the victims, assistance to family members, forensic aspects of recovery and identification, and long-term issues facing the affected community following a major disaster.
Read More →In addition to a felony charge for driving while intoxicated, the driver, Yasushi Mikuni, also faces 10 other felony charges of operating a vehicle negligently causing death or injury and is also being held on logbook and lane-change violations, both misdemeanors.
Read More →Federal law currently caps liability for passenger rail accidents at $200 million, but attorneys for the victims of the 2008 rail accident say costs will far exceed that amount.
Read More →The board's chairman, Peter Benjamin, who fired back at the NTSB, said the accident forced Metro to reevaluate itself and 'no longer rely on our history' and once strong safety record.
Read More →The operator, Gregory Clark, a 32-year Houston Metro veteran, failed an FTA-required drug and alcohol test following the accident.
Read More →Previous accidents, some of which killed employees, foreshadowed the 2009 Metrorail crash that killed nine people.
Read More →As the driver attended to the side door, while traveling about 70 mph on a divided highway, the vehicle drifted out of its lane. Had the vehicle been equipped with a lane departure warning system, the driver would have been alerted upon the initial drift from the driving lane.
Read More →The meeting's purpose will be to determine probable cause of the accident and to consider proposed safety recommendations to reduce the likelihood of future mishaps.
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