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Tweet The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) limits drivers of commercial tractor-trailers and buses to a certain number of hours behind the wheel each day. Known as Hours of Service, or HOS, rules, these rules require drivers to limit the number of hours they are on the road and, if they’re sleeping in their vehicles en route, to get a minimum numbe [...]

It happened in early February. Middle school students from Ribault in Jacksonville were misbehaving by setting off an alarm on the emergency exit. This made it unsafe to continue to drive the bus. Instead of pulling over and transferring students to another bus, or calling police, the school bus driver instructed them to get off the bus at Rutledge Pearson Elementary School and find their own way home. Thankfully, [...]

Billowing smoke could be seen along the Interstate 4 corridor on Sunday, April 17, after a tour bus caught on fire in Osceola County. Emergency crews responded to put out the massive fire, and traffic was delayed for hours as the eastbound lanes were shut down near Mile Marker 58 in Kissimmee, according The Orlando Sentinel. Fortunately there was only one person, the driver, on the bus when the fire began about 11: [...]

10News in Tampa reports that a 14-year-old Lakeland High School student was killed Tuesday afternoon, January 17, after she was hit by a school bus as she crossed the street after school was let out. A substitute driver was behind the wheel of the bus, which had 28 students from Southwest Elementary School. The young teen was heading across West Beacon Road when the bus driver made a left turn and hit her. The teen [...]

“It’s a tragedy in the making.” That’s what one parent of a high school student says in an Orlando Sentinel story about the fact that students who live within two miles of their Central Florida school are not eligible for school bus services. Now, 15-year-old Tabitha Freeman has to don a reflective vest and carry a flashlight as she walks against 6 a.m. traffic on County Road 565A in Clermont with no sidew [...]

As Phoenix bus accident lawyers, we were happy to hear about “Operation Safe Package,” a program enforced by police to catch drivers who attempt to drive passed a bus stopped with an extended stop sign, according to Fox 10. This stop sign means the bus is loading or unloading children, and drivers are required by law to stop and wait, not pass. Drivers who get tickets face an expensive $500 fine. In other state [...]

pOver the last year, our law firm has been retained to represent a href="http://www.reiffandbily.com/catastrophic-injuries.html"catastrophically injured/a victims of trucking accidents as well as high profile bus accidents. One thing is very apparent, many truck and bus operators continue to put greed first and stress profits over safety. Driver fatigue is the number one epidemic and safety problem in the commerc [...]

2011 is shaping up to be a banner year in the annals of tour bus accidents and resulting deaths and injuries. That is more than the total of 2010 when there were 30 fatalities, 272 injuries, and 28 tour bus crashes. In the wake of tour bus accidents, investigations have been commenced by various state and national authorities. However our experienced bus accident attorneys and investigators understand that many [...]

Unfortunately another deadly bus accident has occurred in New York taking the lives of several innocent and unknowing victims. Over the last six months, there have been a series of bus crashes and near crashes involving the discount tour bus industry which has killed almost 20 individuals and catastrophically injured many others. The experienced bus accident lawyers of Reiff and Bily are representing individuals [...]

Over the last six months, there have been a multitude of fatal bus accidents mostly involving discount bus operations. After each accident, there is a news story alleging highlight of safety concerns and woes with investigations noting many times that the bus operators involved had multiple safety violations yet continue their operations. Enough is enough! How many more victims must be catastrophically injured o [...]