Articles Posted in Bus Accidents

A few days ago,  Arizona Republic reporter Robert Anglen called me out of the blue to talk about the lack of seat belts in buses, following a crash in Utah that killed nine passengers. Here’s what he wrote about our conversation: Georgia lawyer Ken Shigley, who specializes in bus and truck accidents, says that approach…

As a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the tragic truck and bus accidents with which I am all to familiar is the crash of a bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team in Atlanta last March. A Saturday morning crash of a Van Hool tour bus operated by Endeavor Bus Lines in Florida illustrates the…

Two recent  crashes of buses transporting Hispanic immigrant passengers highlight problems in safety of charter and tour buses, particularly those providing low-priced transportation for that market segment. Investigation of a recent Capricorn Bus Lines crash in Victoria, Texas, revealed that  the company has been cited 19 times in the past three years for issues ranging from incomplete driver…

A Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer collided Wednesday near Henderson, NC.  The bus plunged down an embankment and overturned, injuring at least 29 people.  The bus was traveling from Richmond, Va., to Raleigh on U.S. 1 when it collided with the tractor-trailer as a tractor-trailer ahead of it made a turn and the bus failed…

The Bluffton University baseball team bus crash last March in Atlanta has led to the introduction of bipartisan legislation in Congress to tighten motor coach safety rules.  Introduced by  U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), the proposed  the Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act of 2007 would require: • Safety belts…

The Middleton (Ohio) Journal is running a series on the Bluffton University baseball team bus crash in Atlanta last March.   I am privileged to be part of the team of lawyers representing the baseball team members and families.  This case raises serious and far reaching questions about both highway design and bus safety.  The Shigley…

In yet another crash that highlights the lack of inadequacy of bus safety standards, two people were killed and two critically injured Saturday evening after a small charter bus hit a median wall and utility poles on I-85 southbound between the Monroe Drive and Buford Highway exits.  Two occupants were thrown from the bus into…

A charter bus carrying members of a  baseball team from Bluffton University, a Mennonite college in Ohio, crashed onto I-75 from an overpass at Northside Drive about 5:30 AM Friday morning, killing six people and closing the southbound lanes of the interstate for 5 hours. A witness who was driving alongside the bus said it…

Last September in Texas, a bus carrying nursing home residents escaping from Hurricane Rita caught fire and burned, killing 23 passengers.  On August 8 -9 in Washington, sparked into action by this tragedy, the National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing on bus safety.  During the hearing, accident investigators will reveal the first…