BUSES ACCIDENTS WORLDWIDE
* Peru - Many killed in a bus accident
Cajamarca,Peru -BBC News (UK) -10 January 2009: -- At least 30 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a bus crash in northern Peru, police said... The bus, which was carrying about 50 passengers, plunged 150m (492ft) when it veered off the road after the driver lost control, Mr Perez said... Correspondents say it is a tough battle to control the large number of illegal bus companies when more than half of Peruvians live below the poverty line... Because many people would rather pay less and take a chance, it is easy for cavalier bus operators to fill their seats with little or no regard for safety... (Photo by El Mercurio -Ecuador)* USA - 50-plus-vehicle pileup clogs New Hampshire interstate Story Highlights, involving cars, buses, 18-wheelers
Derry,NH,USA -CNN -11 Jan 2009: -- More than 50 vehicles -- including a bus carrying Boy Scouts -- collided in a massive pileup on a snow-swept New Hampshire interstate Sunday, closing the highway in one direction for five hours, authorities and witnesses said... There were no fatalities and no apparent life-threatening injuries, although rescue personnel were working to extricate people from crushed vehicles on Interstate 93 near Derry, according to Lt. Chris Aucoin of the New Hampshire State Police... Stephanie Hasenauer was traveling with her son on a bus taking about 30 Boy Scouts on a ski trip. She said the bus came upon an auto accident at about 9 a.m. and stopped... Then, she said, "at least 30 or 40 cars all piled up behind us"... (Photo: Cars and buses are crunched together after a major pileup on Interstate 93 on Sunday - VIDEO from Nick Valencia/CNN) Labels: bus accidents
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