DANGEROUS DRIVERS
* China - Bus plunges into reservoir, 22 deadLuzhou,Sichuan,China -Xinhua/Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney,New South Wales,Australia) -March 16, 2007: -- Twenty two people died and three are missing after a bus veered off a highway, crashed through a barrier and plunged into a reservoir in China early today... The driver took a curve on the slippery, rain soaked road too fast just after midnight, quoted local police... China again topped the world list of road deaths and accidents last year, with nearly 99,000 people killed in 450,000 accidents in the most populous country on the planet... (Photo: AP - A crane is used to pull up the bus from the reservoir after it careered off a road and plunged into the water)
* USA - Bus accident blamed on driver error
Hattiesburg,MS,USA -The Hattiesburg American, by Rachel Leifer -16 Mar 2007: -- A bus officials said was carrying dozens of migrant Jamaican hotel workers overturned in southern Forrest County on Wednesday, sending 32 people to area hospitals and clogging traffic on U.S. 49 for hours... According to statements from the bus driver, the buses made a wrong turn on U.S. 49, and when he realized the mistake around noon, he reached down to retrieve a road map, dropped it and overturned the bus in the median, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. James Snyder said...
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