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Several people were injured early Thursday morning when a commercial bus and semi truck collided with another commercial truck that had overturned on Interstate 80 in Gibbon, Nebraska. Police investigating the crash say that Mohamed Arguini, 39, of Antioch, Tenn., was hauling a truckload of dry cereal when he veered onto the median and then overcorrected, causing his semi truck to flip and splay across both westbound lanes.
Authorities leading the investigation of the crash between a commercial truck and Amtrak’s Downeaster train said the truck driver was distracted, possibly by a cell phone, and blamed the collision on driver inattention.
A family of four from California was killed in British Columbia, Canada, Friday after being struck by a flat-deck tractor trailer and trapped inside their van. The tragic crash happened just after 3 p.m. on Highway 93 in the Kootenay National Park in eastern BC, west of Calgary, Alberta.
Amtrak officials and authorities from a number of federal, state, and municipal agencies in North Berwick, Maine, are investigating Monday’s fiery collision between a trash compactor truck and Amtrak’s Downeaster train.
Raleigh, NC — Former Atlanta Hawks player Lorenzo Charles was killed Tuesday afternoon when the commercial bus he was driving on Interstate 40 in Raleigh, North Carolina, suddenly veered off the road and crashed. Charles, 47, was widely regarded as a hero in this basketball-crazy state for a last-second dunk that delivered a stunning victory to underdog North Carolina State in the 1983 national college championship game against Houston.
Authorities investigating an Amtrak train crash that killed at least six people Friday morning outside Reno, Nev. are honing in on the commercial truck driver whose gravel-laden tractor-trailer ran through the train’s flashing crossing gate and slammed into the side of the Amtrak Zephyr.
In-cab video surveillance of 34,466 commercial drivers has helped researchers at SmartDrive Systems Inc. determine the most common driver distractions linked to risky driving maneuvers. The San Diego-based company, which specializes in fleet management and driver safety solutions, evaluated more than 13.8 million video events recorded last year in a study that sought to quantify behind-the-wheel distractions, such as talking and texting on cell phones, eating, and drinking. Study researchers correlated driver distractions caught on video with sudden stops, swerves, collisions, and other events captured by “black box” type data recordings.
A horrific bus crash that claimed the lives of 15 people and injured several others may have been caused by fatigue or distraction, some passengers and other witnesses have told authorities. The bus, owned and operated by World Wide Tours of Brooklyn, New York, was traveling east on I-95 with 31 passengers when it swerved off the interstate and crashed about 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of deadly truck crashes declined 20 percent last year, dropping from 4,245 in 2008 to 3,380 in 2009. The drop in commercial trucking fatalities puts them at their lowest level in the Transportation Department’s history, but what is responsible for the sudden spike in safety?
New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MAT) drivers received a startling number of distracted driving citations so far this year, according to Department of Transportation officials.
