{"id":3037,"date":"2014-02-12T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:21","slug":"truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck and Bus Safety Hazards Overlooked by Federal Safety Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/\">National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)<\/a> has stated that U.S. truck and bus regulators are not taking steps to prevent serious safety hazards before fatal crashes.<span>\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span>NTSB claims that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmcsa.dot.gov\/\">Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) <\/a>has known about deficiencies in bus company practices before some fatal crashes but took no steps to correct them.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The government agency, FMCSA, has known about these deficiencies before the deadly fatal accidents, but did not take any action to shut down carriers until afterwards.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The National Transportation Safety Board chairman said in a statement that some are under investigation by the agency.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The report said that there has been a long period of time, maybe years, that the FMCSA has chosen not to take action against some bus companies despite repeated safety citations.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The report also reinforced the fact that the FMCSA did nothing to take some of the buses off the road.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The chairman of NTSB, Deborah Hersman, said in a statement that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to crack down before crashes occur, not just after high visibility events.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Ms. Hersman also stated that poorly performing bus companies were on the FMCSA\u2019s radar for violations, but the federal regulators didn\u2019t take any action and allowed these bus companies to continue operating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators\/#more-3037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has stated that U.S. truck and bus regulators are not taking steps to prevent serious safety hazards before fatal crashes.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0NTSB claims that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has known about deficiencies in bus company practices before some fatal crashes but took no steps to correct them.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,111,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus-accidents","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-truck-accidents","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Truck and Bus Safety Hazards Overlooked by Federal Safety Regulators &#8212; 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