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3/6/2010
Emily Mapp Brannon
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Illegally Operating Bus Crashes, Kills 6 and Injures 16 in Arizona (AZ)

Just before sunrise on March 5, 2010, a tour bus carrying 22 passengers from Mexico to California (CA) ran off an Arizona (AZ) highway, rolled and killed six riders. Another 16 passengers suffered injuries requiring hospital care.

Making the tragic situation worse, newspapers such as the Arizona Republic are reporting that the California company that operated the bus, Tierra Santa Inc., "has a history of safety violations, no federal record of insurance and could not legally carry passengers in Arizona." This inexcusable situation is unfortunately common.



As I noted last summer, an analysis of data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate buses, showed that nearly two dozen companies ordered to cease operations after committing serious safety violations continued to put their vehicles on the road. Bus safety has received increasing attention as the number of incidents such as this week's elementary school bus accident in Portsmouth, last fall's accident involving a bus bringing the King's Fork field hockey team back from a game and the 2008 fatal bus crash near Houston in which, again, passengers traveling from Mexico died by the side of a highway.

When children or adults board a bus, they literally entrust their lives and health to the driver and the bus company, school district or transit agency that operates the bus. Tierra Santa Inc. appears to have violated this trust with passengers aboard its bus Friday morning by running an unsafe bus and operating in defiance of applicable laws. My thoughts go out to those who lost their lives and became hospitalized, as well as to the victims' families.

EJL

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About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is a Viriginia injury law firm whose attorneys focus on personal injury and accident law and have experience handling cases for victims of mass transit accidents such as airplane, train and bus crashes. In fact, our law firm published a free consumer safety guide on what to do if you are hurt in a plane wreck.

We have offices in Virginia Beach and Hampton, Virginia but we're ready to come to you anywhere in VA including Suffolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Newport News and Norfolk, VA, if you've been seriously hurt by someone else's carelessness.

Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been included among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008, and have been named Virginia Super Lawyers for Personal Injury Law since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of lawyers receive.

Shapiro and Lewis have also been selected for inclusion in the National Million Dollar Advocates Forum since 2009. In addition, ours was the first injury law firm in Virginia to join Primerus, a select group of highly ethical and respected law firms. Our VA mass transit injury law firm has the highest rating of AV from Martindale-Hubbell, a national lawyer ranking organization, which means we have a reputation for preeminent legal skill.

While not every injury case meets our criteria, we offer free initial confidential injury case consultations. Call us toll free at (800) 752-0042. If you cannot get through due to high call volume, please leave a voicemail so we can respond directly to you.

 

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