DANGEROUS STREETS WORLDWIDE
* Canada - "The bus system is under siege" union says - Ride Rage Driver punched in latest instance of transit violenceVANCOUVER,Canada -Globe and Mail, by EVA SALINAS -4 Aug 2006: -- On the most dangerous stretch for bus drivers, over the most familiar dispute, a bus driver was punched in the face this week on Hastings Street by a man who couldn't pay the full fare... It was the latest in a surge of assaults on Lower Mainland bus drivers and their union says the transit system continues to boil over with problems... Working conditions are so poor, Mr. Houlahan said, that both riders and drivers are extremely frustrated... The Lower Mainland has seen an unprecedented increase in bus riders, to more than 200 million from 160 million in 2002. Mr. Houlahan is not surprised that the number of assaults has risen...
* Australia - Bus drivers blacklist Sydney suburbs
Sydney,Australia -The Australian -4 Aug 2006: -- Sydney bus drivers have declared no-go zones in two western suburbs aftera number of attacks on drivers. Transport Workers Union...
* Australia - Bus 'no go' zone declared after rock attack
Sydney,Australia -ABC Online -August 6, 2006: -- A "no go" zone has been imposed on a bus route in Sydney's west after another attack on a bus yesterday... Police are searching for a 12-year-old boy after a rock was thrown through the window of a bus at Shalvey, near Mount Druitt... Transport Workers Union (TWU) spokesman Wayne Forno says drivers will be avoiding the area until new safety measures are implemented...
* New Zealand - Bus driver still traumatised after running over students
Wellington,New Zealand -Stuff.co.nz -4 August 2006: -- A bus driver who ran over five high school students on Auckland's North Shore in June was still deeply traumatised, his lawyer told a court today... The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty in North Shore District Court today to five charges of careless driving causing injury after he lost control of his Ritchies Coachlines bus at Rangitoto College on June 27...
* HAWAI/USA - Tour bus fire ignites brush
KAUPO,HI,USA -Maui News (Wailuku,HI) -4 Aug 2006: -- The driver reported seeing smoke coming from the air-conditioning area of a tour bus shortly before flames shot out Wednesday afternoon, in turn igniting 10 acres of brush at Nuu Landing, police said... (Photo by DONNIE BURROUGHS: A visitor touring Kaupo photographed a Polynesian Adventure Tours bus on fire at a scenic stop Wednesday afternoon. The blaze, which apparently started in an air-conditioning unit, spread to the surrounding brush, scorching about 10 acres in the remote East Maui region near Nuu Landing)
* USA - Woman faces DWI charge after crashing into school bus
Syracuse,NY,USA -News 10 Now -4 Aug 2006: -- A 20-year-old Liverpool woman faces a laundry list of charges including DWI and leaving the scene of a crash after hitting a school bus Friday morning... Amy McClowsky attempted to turn on to Long Branch Road and hit the school bus instead. Investigators said McClowsky left the scene of the crash, but they caught up with her a short time later... There were no children on the bus at the time, and the driver was not hurt...
*USA - Authorities say nearly 789 pounds of cocaine found in bus
LAREDO,TX,USA -Houston Chronicle/Associated Press -Aug. 4, 2006: -- A search of a commercial bus at an international bridge yielded nearly 789 pounds of cocaine hidden in the side panels, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday... The cocaine and the 2000 Mercedes bus were seized Thursday night at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge... A drug-sniffing dog and a gamma-ray imaging system scan helped lead to discovery of the bundles of cocaine, authorities said...
* UK - "We don't feel safe on the bus any more"
Croydon,UK -ic Croydon, by Sarah Bailey -Aug 4, 2006: -- Two of Croydon's bus routes are among the most dangerous in the capital according to new figures released by Transport for London... The 250 and the 109, which both run from central Croydon to Brixton, recorded 533 "code red" emergency calls from drivers between them in a year... Code red calls are made in response to problems including knife or gun attacks, verbal abuse, fighting, drunken or threatening behaviour... The figures put both routes among the top 40 most dangerous bus journeys in London...
* China - Bus Explosion in China Kills 8, Injures 19
BEIJING,China -Xinhua News Agency /FOX News (USA) -August 06, 2006: -- An explosion aboard a bus in southern China killed eight people on Sunday, a government news agency reported, just days after a similar explosion killed 11... The explosion occurred at about 6:00 p.m. in Hunan province's Guiyang county... Eight people died on the spot and 19 more were taken to hospital with injuries... Last Thursday, 11 people were killed when a blast rocked a bus in southern China's Guizhou province just as it was leaving the terminal. That explosion, which injured 15, was also under investigation... China has suffered a string of fatal explosions aboard public buses in recent years, blamed on both bomb attacks and accidents with gas canisters and other dangerous cargo...
* Thailand - ‘Improvised’ bomb used in attack on BMTA bus
Bangkok,Thailand -IHT ThaiDay, by Phoojadkarn Daily -7 August 2006: -- The commander of division four of the metropolitan police said yesterday that the police will do their best to investigate the bombing of a Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) joint bus on Saturday night... At 10:40pm on Saturday, Lat Phrao police received a report of an explosion on the number 95 bus, which was then parked in front of Bang Toey temple on Kaset-Nawamin Road... After investigating the bus, scattered pieces of an alarm clock, plaster and plastic bags were found around the rear seats...
* India - IAF rescues 11 trapped people in sinking bus in Maharashtra
Buldhana, Maharashtra,India -Hindu (Chennai,India)/PTI -Aug. 6, 2006: -- In a dramatic rescue operation, IAF today pulled out 11 of the 13 people trapped in a bus sinking in swelling rain water in Maharashtra's Buldhana district... As hopes of survival were fading for the trapped passengers in the state transport bus about to be submerged, an IAF advanced light helicopter came to their rescue...
* UK - Roof sliced off double-decker bus
Middlesbrough,UK -ITV.com -Aug 6, 2006: -- Five people have been injured on Teesside when a double-decker bus crashed into a railway bridge, slicing off its roof... Police said the top deck of the bus was torn off inches above the passengers' heads when it crashed into the railway bridge on Albert Road in Middlesbrough...
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