PHOENIX - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on June 21 issued a notice of claim charging a Los Angeles-based bus line and its owner with multiple safety violations, the Associated Press reported. The company was involved in a March 5 crash near Phoenix that resulted in six fatalities.
Read More →WASHINGTON - A report released April 22 by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reveals that motorcycle fatalities declined in 2009 by at least 10 percent.
Read More →LOS ANGELES - A California appeals court panel on Tuesday, April 6, decided that second-degree murder charges will be reinstated against a trucker whose runaway big rig killed a man and his 12-year-old daughter near Los Angeles a year ago, the Associated Press reported.
Read More →CAMPBELL, TX - An Americanos USA bus on Tuesday, March 16, veered out of control on a Texas highway before flipping over, killing two passengers and injuring 40 others on board, the Associated Press reported.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the number of overall traffic fatalities reported at the end of 2009 reached the lowest level since 1954, declining for the 15th consecutive quarter.
Read More →MELVILLE, NY --- A fuel truck flipped and burst into flames on New York's Long Island Expressway on Saturday morning, Jan. 23, killing the driver and shutting down the highway in both directions for hours.
Read More →SPRINGFIELD, OH --- Four people were killed and six injured Jan. 7 after a tanker truck collided with a van carrying adult students on snow-covered Interstate 70 in Clark County, Ohio.
Read More →TALLAHASSEE, FL --- The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported this month that traffic crash fatalities in the state fell to an 18-year low during 2009.
Read More →RICHMOND, VA --- In 2009, the number of traffic fatalities in Virginia was the lowest since 1966, when records were first kept, according to the Virginia State Police.
Read More →REDDING, CA - A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing the female passenger of one of the vehicles, according to the New York Times.
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