DANGEROUS: BUSES or DRIVERS
* Pakistan - Mini-bus plunges into canal, 11 killedMultan,Pakistan -Reuters -26 Nov 2006: -- A mini-bus plunged into a canal, killing 11 passengers, including four children, in eastern Pakistan on Sunday... There were 25 people aboard the mini-bus when the accident happened near Tunsa Sharif, 210 kms south-west of Multan in Punjab province... "We have recovered 11 dead bodies, and rescued 14 others from the canal," Khalid Mehmud, a senior police officer, said, adding that the vehicle's tie-rod controlling the steering had sheared in two...
* India - 20 hurt as bus, trailer collide
Ahmedabad,India -Ahmedabad Newsline -Nov 26, 2006: -- At least 20 people were injured in a road accident on Sarkhej-Sanand Highway, when a State Transport bus and a trailer collided head-on on Saturday night... Sanand police have registered a case of rash driving and voluntarily causing injury, against the driver of the trailer, who is absconding... According to Sanand police, the incident happened at 2.30 am near Sabar Hotel, when a Nadiad-bound ST bus was passing by the spot and a speeding trailer collided with it head-on...
* USA - Vehicle slams into AC Transit bus in Oakland
San Francisco,CA, USA -The San Francisco Chronicle, by Patrick Hoge -Nov 25, 2006: -- A vehicle that ran a red light smashed into a 57-line AC Transit bus in Oakland on Saturday afternoon, possibly injuring five bus passengers... The driver attempted to flee after the 4 p.m. collision on 13th Avenue near Interstate 580, but he was apprehended and taken into custody by police, said Mary King, a spokeswoman for the bus agency...
* USA - Mechanical Issue May Have Caused Bus Crash - NTSB: Car That Collided With Alabama School Bus May Have Had Steering Malfunction
New York City,NY,USA -CBS News/AP -28 Nov 2006: -- A car involved in the deadly school bus crash that killed four students may have had mechanical problems, local officials and the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday night in Huntsville, Ala... Huntsville Police Chief Rex Reynolds, "There was no deliberate erratic driving on part of the driver of the Celica prior to the accident."... (Photo AP: Wreckage from a school bus that crashed and plunged over a Huntsville, Ala. highway overpass Nov. 20, 2006)
* India - 14 killed, 29 hurt bus accident near Solan
Shimla,India -The Hindu -Dec. 2, 2006: -- At least 14 people were killed and 29 others injured, three of them seriously, when a Delhi-bound Himachal Pradesh roadways bus rolled 600 feet down the hill near Solan area today, police said... The bus, carrying about 50 passengers, was on its way from Shimla to Delhi when the accident took place near Kandaghat, 10 kms from Solan on Shimla-Kalka National Highway, Additional Superintendent of Police Varinder Kanwar said... The cause of the accident was not known immediately and a magisterial inquiry had been ordered...
* Taiwan - Bus crashes into ravine killing 22
Taipei,Taiwan -Reuters/to cable TV station TVBS -3 Dec 2006: -- A tour bus in southern Taiwan plunged off the road and into a ravine killing 22 people on board and injuring 24 others, an emergency official and media said late on Sunday... The bus, carrying 46 passengers, crashed through a concrete barrier on the side of the road and fell 30 metres (yards) into a ravine in southern Tainan County... "The driver said that the brakes failed"...
* Morocco - Bus crash kills 12, most French
Rabat,Morocco -Reuters/Moroccan MAP news agency -3 Dec 2006: -- Twelve people, most of them French, were killed in Morocco when a tourist coach collided head-on with an articulated truck... Twenty-four people were injured in the accident, which occurred on Saturday afternoon near the village of Benguerir in western Morocco on the main road between Casablanca and Marrakesh... "The wheels were wet"..
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