Accident - USA - Brakes, fatigue cited in fatal crash of bus on high school trip
NTSB investigators said the truck driver tried to pull off the road illegally and the bus had two brakes out of adjustment.
EAU CLAIRE, WIS,USA - Star Tribune, by Robert Franklin -Oct 26, 2005: -- Authorities have released a list of "should not haves" about the bus-truck crash 10 days ago near Osseo, Wis., that killed five people connected with the Chippewa Falls High School marching band:
• The Chippewa Trails charter bus should not have been on the road because two of its six brakes were seriously out of adjustment. It had been pulled from service in July because of a brake problem.
• The driver of the semitrailer truck should not have tried to stop alongside the road for a bathroom break, a move that ended with his rig tipping over and blocking both westbound lanes and shoulders of Interstate Hwy. 94.
• The bus driver perhaps should not have put his eyeglasses away and perhaps should have gotten more sleep...
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