SAFETY * USA - Texas charter bus probe focuses on shuttered Dallas firm
Houston,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle, by TERRI LANGFORD & JAMES PINKERTON -Oct. 31, 2008: -- Texas transportation officials, spurred by a national safety investigation into a fatal Houston charter bus crash near Victoria, are looking into why that bus and 22 others from companies across the state were registered through a Dallas bus company shut down this summer by federal regulators... Texas Department of Transportation spokeswoman Kim Sue Lia Perkes confirmed that the license plate registrations of at least 23 buses, all tied to the Dallas address of Green River Buses, were turned over this week to the Texas Department of Public Safety for further investigation... Also, at least 17 of those buses are Mexican-made, prompting questions as to whether they were built to U.S. safety standards and whether they entered this country legally... "TxDOT is vigilant about how we go about registering motorcoaches that come into our borders from Mexico," Perkes said. "We do everything we can to ensure the motorcoaches on Texas' highways and roads are safe"... The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Green River Buses of Dallas to shut down in August. The company also had been ordered to do so in April...
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