The National Transportation Safety Board released a report Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in response to a March 2011 tour bus crash that left 15 dead, explains New York City injury attorney Jonathan C Reiter. According to the reports the fatal crash resulted from an exhausted driver, who suffered from too little sleep and received too little oversight from the bus company. The driver of the bus, Ophadell Williams, reportedly went nearly three days without sleep, except for naps, before the March 12 accident. The bus was en route to Chinatown, traveling 78 miles per hour in a 50mph zone when it ran off the road, hit a guardrail, fell over and crashed into a highway sign support pole. The pole jackknifed into the bus, peeling off the roof killing 15 and injuring 17, according to reports reviewed by continue
The National Transportation Safety Board has released hundreds of documents in its investigation into a bus crash on Interstate 95 in Virginia that killed four people and injured dozens. The bus bound for New York overturned about 30 miles north of Richmond on May 31, 2011. Court records show driver Kin Yiu Cheung admitted to police that he fell asleep at the wheel. He is set to go to trial later this month on four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Dispatcher Zhao Jian Chen is set to face the same charges in October. The docket includes about 630 pages of interview summaries, investigative reports, more than 65 photographs and other documents continue
It’s not uncommon for judges to dismiss tickets against drivers on the grounds that the citations contain major errors, like misidentifying the street where an alleged traffic violation occurred, because the mistakes call into question the police officer’s accuracy in providing other information on the ticket. Flawed or incomplete accident data compromise city transportation experts’ ability to make good decisions about where to target spending for safety-related traffic fixes and install red-light cameras, the researchers in the city-commissioned study concluded. While such blunders can simply be a lucky break for the driver if no one else is involved, the consequences of police documentation errors on public safety are potentially huge when crashes occur and people are hurt or killed, experts say continue
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