National Transportation Officials to Investigate Fatal Bus Crash in Seattle

National Transportation Officials to Investigate Fatal Bus Crash in Seattle
NY Times
9/25/15

[…] More than two dozen people were being treated in Seattle hospitals on Friday, many of them in intensive care, a day after a bus packed with international students and a tour bus collided.

Four students — from Austria, Japan, Indonesia and China — were killed on Thursday when a bus carrying students from North Seattle College and a Ride the Ducks amphibious bus crashed while crossing a bridge. […]

LASD: Distracted Driving Investigation Milt Olin Follow Up

LASD: Distracted Driving Investigation Milt Olin Follow Up

MyFoxLA
Dec 11, 2014

[…] If there are laws against distracted driving, especially texting, wouldn’t it stand to reason that typing into a computer that you have to look down at, reading a computer screen you have to look down at, is also potentially distracting? […] Of the concept of less MDC, more radio, Eric Bruins, who runs the LA County Bicycle Coalition, says “We were deeply affected by Milt’s death so for some good to come out it, a little silver lining if we change the way we do things moving forward that’s good. […]

Bus crashed twice in one day: Police ID passenger who died

Bus crashed twice in one day: Police ID passenger who died
LA Times
Nov. 24, 2014

A tour bus crashed twice on Sunday in Northern California — the second time killing one man and injuring 30 other passengers — and an investigation is underway.

The CHP said Monday the fact that the bus crashed into a Denny’s before the later deadly crash could point to fatigue on the part of the driver. […]

1 Killed, Dozens Injured in California Bus Crash

1 Killed, Dozens Injured in California Bus Crash
ABC news
REDDING, Calif.

Nov 24, 2014

[…] A tour bus ran off a Northern California freeway and overturned Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring 30 ? six of them seriously, authorities said. […] Earlier in the same trip and about 50 miles to the south, the bus had struck a Denny’s restaurant in Red Bluff, Borgen said. No one was injured in that crash. […]