{"id":3097,"date":"2014-02-17T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:23","slug":"fatalities-related-truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/fatalities-related-truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatalities Related to Truck and Bus Safety Hazards Overlooked by Federal Safety Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Officials at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/\">National Transportation Safety Board<\/a> (NTSB) believe that U.S. truck and bus regulators are not catching on to serious safety hazards before fatal crashes occur.<span>\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span>NTSB has stated 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 the agency took no steps to correct them.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The FMCSA has known about these deficiencies before the fatal accidents took place, but did not take any action to shut down carriers until afterward.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The NTSB chairman said in a statement that some of these cases 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 &#8212; maybe years &#8212; 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 dangerous buses out of service and off the road.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The chairman of the NTSB, Deborah Hersman, said in a statement that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to crack down before more deadly crashes occur, not just after high-visibility events.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Ms. Hersman also said that poor performing bus companies were on the FMCSA\u2019s radar for safety violations, but they did not take any action and allowed these bus companies to continue operating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/fatalities-related-truck-bus-safety-hazards-overlooked-federal-safety-regulators\/#more-3097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believe that U.S. truck and bus regulators are not catching on to serious safety hazards before fatal crashes occur.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0NTSB has stated that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has known about deficiencies in bus company practices before some fatal crashes, but the agency took no steps [&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":[63,38,113,111,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus-accidents","category-federal-law","category-school-bus-accidents","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fatalities Related to Truck and Bus Safety Hazards Overlooked by Federal Safety Regulators &#8212; 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