Latest Transportation Headlines
All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Higginbotham Appoints Shell to Lead Transportation Insurance Unit
Feb 17 2012 // Texas-based independent insurance and financial service firm, Higginbotham, has appointed commercial insurance broker Jack Shell to develop its new transportation unit. Shell, hired in April 2011 at Higginbotham’s...
Some in Massachusetts Eye Tougher Cellphone Restrictions for Motorists
Dec 16 2011 // Supporters of tougher laws against distracted driving said Wednesday they hoped the National Transportation Safety Board’s call for an outright ban on all non-emergency cellphone use by motorists would encourage...
NTSB Focuses on Driver Texting in Missouri Crash
Dec 14 2011 // A texting pickup truck driver who caused a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year has federal accident investigators taking a hard look at the use of distracting devices behind the wheel. The National Transportation...
Safety Oversght of Government Aircraft Lacking
Nov 30 2011 // Nonmilitary government agencies operate more aircraft than the world’s largest airline but are subject to little federal safety oversight — a situation accident investigators say has contributed to air crashes and...
Philly Boat Crash Intensifies Distracted Driving Debate
Jul 4 2011 // The nation risks a surge in deadly accidents unless it makes distracted driving – talking, texting and surfing the Internet while operating cars, boats and trains – as taboo as drunken driving, members of the...
Can U.S. Make Phoning While Driving as Taboo as Drunk Driving?
Jun 24 2011 // The nation risks a surge in deadly accidents unless it makes distracted driving — talking, texting and surfing the Internet while operating cars, boats and trains — as taboo as drunken driving, members of the National...
Safety Advocates, Industry Spar Over Bus, Truck Safety Rules
May 13 2011 // On a clear June afternoon, a tractor-trailer truck crested a small rise on a stretch of interstate highway in Oklahoma. Plainly visible in the distance were more than a dozen cars and trucks that had stopped while a...
Technology to Prevent Bus Accidents Exists But Isn’t Implemented
Apr 4 2011 // The technology exists to prevent many bus crashes and to make it more likely passengers will survive those that do occur, but government regulators have failed to implement safety recommendations that in some case stretch...
Local California Fire Chief Unaware of Gas Line Before Explosion
Mar 4 2011 // Until a deadly explosion south of San Francisco last year, local firefighters had no idea there was a large gas transmission pipeline underneath their town — a recurring problem in pipeline accidents, federal safety...
NTSB: Dakotas Booster Seat Laws Lacking
Sep 21 2010 // The National Transportation Safety Board says child passenger safety laws in 21 states including the Dakotas still do not meet its safety recommendations. The NTSB has called for state child restraint laws to cover...
Jury Clears New Hampshire Transportation Department in Fatal Crash
Jun 3 2010 // A jury says the New Hampshire Transportation Department was not responsible for a 2007 Interstate 93 crash that killed a 6-year-old boy. A jury in Rockingham Superior Court returned the verdict following a civil trial. A...
Bailey joins Transportation Risk Services as Vice President
Mar 25 2010 // Insurance transportation MGA and wholesale broker Transportation Risk Services (TRS) in Barrington, Ill., has added Sandra Bailey as vice president. Bailey has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry....
NTSB: Tire Puncture Caused August 2008 Texas Bus Crash
Oct 30 2009 // An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a tire puncture caused a bus crash in August 2008 that killed 17 members of Houston’s Vietnamese Catholic community. The finding was...
NTSB Turns Louisiana Plane Crash Site Over to Insurers
Oct 14 2009 // The National Transportation Safety Board has completed its on-scene investigation of a midair collision in Louisiana that killed both men in one plane and injured a man and a woman in another. Board spokesman Terry...
Survey: Transportation Insurance Market Soft, But Leveling Off
Aug 26 2009 // Transportation insurance rate decreases seem to be moderating and are down on average between 1 percent to 10 percent, according to a recent industry survey on availability and rate trends in the transportation insurance...
NTSB: No Mechanical Problems with Maine Helicopter
Aug 19 2009 // A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on the emergency landing of a helicopter in Maine says there were no mechanical problems reported before the crash. WCSH reports the NTSB states a...
Investigators Still Search for Clues in NYC Air Crash
Aug 10 2009 // As investigators try to piece together how a small plane and tourist helicopter came to enter each other’s airspace over the Hudson River on a clear summer day, divers were to search for clues to the crash believed...
A Look at the Transportation Insurance Industry
Mar 9 2009 // Industry Still Stalled in a Soft Market But Some Rate Increases on the Horizon Observers of the property and casualty insurance industry, who consider themselves gurus when it comes to predicting cyclical changes, find...
Report: Flaw in Bridge Design Likeliest Cause of Minnesota Bridge Collapse
Oct 28 2008 // Minnesota State Rep. Jim Oberstar on Oct. 26 criticized the National Transportation Safety Board after a published report said investigators for the agency have determined an original design flaw is the likeliest reason...
Wisconsin Sleep-Related Truck Crash Prompts Federal Call for Research
Sep 18 2008 // Trucking companies should work harder to enforce that their drivers get rest, and the government should move toward mandating the use of alarm systems to alert exhausted truckers, a federal board recommended. While drivers...
