Archive for August, 2012

Investigators that have been examining the cause of a fatal bus accident in a tunnel in the Swiss alps in March, leaving 22 children and six adults dead, have stated that the findings of their investigation are inconclusive in aRead More

At least 25 passengers have been injured in a bus accident in the Udhampur district of Kashmir, India on Wednesday. The over-crowded passenger bus, which is thought to have been carrying 48 passengers despite only being registered for 36, wasRead More

At least 36 people have been killed after a long distance passenger bus smashed into a methane carrying transport taken in the Northern region of China last night. The bus, an overnight sleeper, was travelling through the city of YananRead More

Many people have the misconception that travelling by bus is one of the safer means of transportation – they are larger and more sturdy than motorcars, and don’t even legally have to have seatbelts. It is true that there areRead More

School buses provide a convenient service to families, providing reliable transportation services to and from schools. Transport to and from school is thought to be one of the biggest forms of transport in the United States, as hundreds of thousandsRead More

At least twelve passengers have been killed and a further 23 people injured after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Mexico. The bus was carrying a group of senior residents from an old age home in the provinceRead More

British heavy metal group Baroness have sustained minor injuries after a bus that they were travelling on their tour of the United Kingdom was involved in a serious accident. The tour bus was travelling along a bridge on a highwayRead More

Two people have been killed and 12 others injured, two seriously so, when a bus collided with a BMW sedan on Tuesday night in Dorval, Montreal. The accident occurred at an intersection between 55th and Lindsay Aves. in an industrialRead More

At least 52 passengers were killed and a further 45 seriously injured after a grossly overloaded passenger bus skidded off the road and down a gorge on Saturday the 11th of August. The accident, which occurred in the Northern IndianRead More

31 passengers were killed and 34 people were injured, 12 critically so, when an overcrowded long distance passenger bus skidded off the road and into a ravine in a remote area in northern India on Wednesday.   The accident occurredRead More