DANGEROUS DRIVERS
* Australia - Bus driver five times over alcohol limit
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Jano Gibson -Nov 8, 2006: -- A NSW bus driver carrying seven school-aged children has been charged after allegedly registering a blood alcohol reading 5.3 times the legal limit... The 50-year-old male driver was arrested and a subsequent breath test found he had a blood alcohol reading of 0.265, police said... He was charged with driving with a high range PCA (prescribed concentration of alcohol) and had his licence suspended...
* Australia - Bus driver fell asleep at wheel
Melbourne,Australia -The Melbourne Herald Sun, by Norrie Ross -Nov 09, 2006: -- The driver of an Egyptian bus in which five Victorians died earlier this year fell asleep before the horror accident... The Coroner's Court heard yesterday that Mahmoud Muhamed Hafez had been at the wheel for up to 17 hours without a break... State Coroner Graeme Johnstone was told an inquest would hear evidence from a senior Victorian policeman who saw Hafez doze off...
* USA - 22 students seek care after bus accident
Red Springs,N.C.,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer (Seattle ,WASH)/AP -Nov 8, 2006: -- A car collided with a school bus Wednesday and 22 middle school students and their bus driver were taken to a hospital, authorities said. No one was seriously injured... The car pulled out to pass the Robeson County bus, but moved in front of a tractor-trailer that had already changed lanes to pass the school vehicle... The car struck the truck and then the bus, and became lodged under the bus, he said... The bus went out of control and ended up in a ditch...
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