For the truly-devoted, serious NBT reader, finally the pay-off begins. After having to slog through thousands of words to learn about a flawed NTSB report,
As we learned from the Introduction to this series, tire manufacturers, motorcoach manufacturers and more recently a seating manufacturer have been sucked into lawsuits in
As NBT readers of my past columns well know, my perspective on accidents and their causation is pretty skewed because I spend most of my
As a barometer of modern America, the use of buses and motorcoaches has gradually expanded – fortunately only marginally. As an example, the January 14th
No, this is not the name of a case. It refers to a dangerous conflict coursing through the bus and motorcoach industries – a conflict
It is surprising how many drivers fail to pull their buses or coaches to the curb, or otherwise position them properly in the loading zone.
Seat spacing, as noted earlier, is a particularly tricky variable. With lapbelted passengers (and even large three-point belted passengers), increasing the envelope of restraint would
As we learned from the Introduction to this series, tire manufacturers, a motorcoach manufacturer and a seating manufacturer were sucked into a lawsuit in which
In the previous installment in this series, I presented clues that helped to explain what genuinely caused a tragic catastrophic incident to occur – clues
Part 1 of this series provided a brief overview of one of an increasing volume of catastrophic bus and motorcoach accidents in which innocent vehicle
