Latest Transportation Headlines
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Harris County D.A. Considers Criminal Charges Against Bus Owner
Aug 13 2008 // Criminal charges were being considered against a Houston motorcoach owner and president whose bus crashed in north Texas killing 17 Vietnamese Catholics on their way to a religious festival in Missouri, according to a...
Medically Unfit Truck, Bus Drivers Still on U.S. Roads, Study Finds
Jul 22 2008 // Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver’s licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some of those drivers have suffered...
Crump Names Two to Transportation Department in Washington
Jun 20 2008 // Crump Insurance Services named Michal Walter associate broker for the transportation department in Bothell, Wash. He will be responsible for quoting, binding, and servicing renewals and new accounts; developing...
News Currents
Nov 4 2007 // National Transportation Safety Board still investigating bridge collapse Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)continue to interview motorists who were on the Interstate 35W bridge when it...
National Transportation Safety Board Still Investigating Minn. Bridge Collapse
Oct 25 2007 // Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)continue to interview motorists who were on the Interstate 35W bridge when it collapsed more than two months ago and expect to conclude their investigation...
As motorcycle deaths rise, Feds urge states adopt strict helmet laws
Sep 24 2007 // States should require motorcycle riders to wear proper helmets, government investigators urged as part of several recommendations that seek to stem a steady rise in motorcycle deaths. Members of the National Transportation...
As motorcycle deaths rise, Feds urge states adopt strict helmet laws
Sep 24 2007 // States should require motorcycle riders to wear proper helmets, government investigators urged as part of several recommendations that seek to stem a steady rise in motorcycle deaths. Members of the National Transportation...
As Motorcycle Deaths Rise, Feds Urge States Adopt Strict Helmet Laws
Sep 12 2007 // States should require motorcycle riders to wear proper helmets, government investigators urged as part of several recommendations that seek to stem a steady rise in motorcycle deaths. Members of the National Transportation...
Feds Release Final Report on Ky. Plane Crash that Killed 49
Aug 30 2007 // Federal investigators released their final report Tuesday on last summer’s deadly crash of a Comair flight in Kentucky, finding that the pilots were primarily responsible but making safety recommendations that extend...
Official Blames Safety Flaws in U.S. Aviation System for Comair Crash
Aug 15 2007 // A lead investigator of last summer’s deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed “latent failures” across the nation’s aviation system. In an eight-page...
Mass. Lawmakers Urge Federal Inspections of Nation’s Tunnels
Jul 17 2007 // Massachusetts lawmakers say a federal safety board’s report on last year’s fatal Big Dig ceiling collapse gives a boost to their push for a national tunnel inspection program aimed at preventing future...
Growing rail freight transportation industry meets growing risks
Jun 4 2007 // The demand for freight transportation by rail has grown steadily in recent years after a prolonged period of excess capacity. The increased demand was fueled by a generally growing U.S. economy, expanding imports from...
Transportation Risk Management Adds Lord to National Sales Department
Apr 10 2007 // John D. Lord has joined Transport Risk Management Inc. in the National Sales and Production Department based in Conifer, Colo. He is a 14-year veteran in the insurance business, having spent 10 years in the aviation...
Safety Officials and NBC Exec Push for More Oversight of Charter Flights
Dec 28 2006 // Travelers who pay a premium for the convenience of charter air travel could unknowingly end up on a flight operated without direct federal oversight. That fact — along with an effort to change it — is central to a...
National Advantage Offers Market for Calif. Transportation Risks
Oct 25 2006 // Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc., has added a new admitted market for business auto and/or trucking risks available to California transportation insurance brokers. The carrier is Lincoln...
Safety Board Reports Transportation Fatalities Up in 2005
Sep 18 2006 // Transportation fatalities in the United States increased last year, according to preliminary figures released today by the National Transportation Safety Board. Deaths from transportation accidents in the United States in...
Federal Agency Questions Safety of Buses for Special Needs Patients
Aug 9 2006 // Federal officials, prompted by a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home residents, are examining whether buses are safe for people with special needs. The National Transportation Safety Board is seeking answers to the...
Safety Board: Ethan Allen Capsizing Caused By Too Many Passengers
Jul 26 2006 // The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the probable cause of the capsizing of the Ethan Allen on New York’s Lake George last October was the vessel’s insufficient stability to resist the...
Toll Plazas Present Serious Highway Danger, Feds Warn
Apr 20 2006 // The most dangerous place on the highway is the toll plaza, say federal safety investigators who are urging changes to reduce accidents like one that claimed eight lives in Illinois. Thirty states, including Oklahoma, have...
Safety Board: Baltimore Water Taxi in Accident Was Overloaded
Mar 10 2006 // Americans’ expanding waistlines were a factor in the capsizing of a Baltimore water taxi that killed five people in 2004, a trend that has led to other deadly transportation accidents, the government said. The...
