In a unanimous vote Tuesday in Washington, the five-member board said bus driver Ophadell Williams h

CBS 2 CBS 2 is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corp. and one of the largest network-owned station groups in the country. Latest Videos Eye On New York Dining Deals Tony’s Table Links [...] WCBS 880 WCBS Newsradio 880 is one of America’s most listened dollar rent a car discounts to radio stations providing news and information on the AM dial in New York for 45 years. dollar rent a car discounts  Traffic and Weather Together on the “8’s” has been [...] 1010 WINS 1010 WINS invented all news radio and is the longest-running all news station in the country. For more than 45 years, 1010 WINS has been a news and information utility for the New York metropolitan [...] WFAN As the world’s first 24-hour all-sports radio station, WFAN remains the premier sports dollar rent a car discounts talk radio station dollar rent a car discounts in the business. Since its debut on July 1, 1987, dozens of stations have copied the all sports format, [...] WLNY Program Schedule Channel Guide WLNY TV 10/55 is part of the CBS Television Stations group, dollar rent a car discounts a division of CBS Corp. and one of the largest network-owned station groups in the country. Got a nose for [...]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) dollar rent a car discounts Calling it one of the deadliest crashes ever investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board , federal officials said driver fatigue was the cause of a fatal tour bus crash in the Bronx last year.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday in Washington, the five-member board said bus driver Ophadell Williams had almost no sleep in the days leading up the March 12, 2011, crash, saying he only took naps on the bus while passengers were gambling inside a Connecticut casino.
For tens of thousands of travelers dollar rent a car discounts every day, bus travel is safe. But, with their capacity for dozens of passengers, when something goes wrong, as it did in the Bronx that early March morning, the consequences can be deadly, NTSB Chairman dollar rent a car discounts Debbie Hersman said.
The wreck happened on Interstate 95 when the tour bus that was on its way  to Chinatown from Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, overturned and slammed into a poll. The impact of the crash  peeled off the roof  of the bus, killing dollar rent a car discounts 15 passengers and injuring 18 more.
This crash, one of three fatal U.S. bus crashes in rapid succession last year, is one of the deadliest crashes the NTSB has ever investigated, Hersman dollar rent a car discounts told reporters, including CBS 2 s Chris Wragge.
dollar rent a car discounts The motorcoach, which had reached dollar rent a car discounts speeds as high as 78 mph in the 60 seconds prior to the crash, left the travel lanes to the right, crossed over a paved shoulder, and struck a roadside barrier, Hersman said. Then, the bus careened nearly 500 feet as it was rolling over onto its right side. It finally collided with a large highway signpost.
Investigators also said Williams cell phone and rental car were being used almost continuously for three days prior to the wreck during the daytime when Williams dollar rent a car discounts said he had been sleeping. His license had been suspended on 18 previous occasions, officials said.
For years, dollar rent a car discounts speed has been a factor in accidents, she said. And we ve seen in investigation after investigation, the tragic results of the degraded performance from fatigue. Together, fatigue and speed are an especially lethal combination.
Then in June, police said a bus carrying tourists headed to Flushing, Queens, rear-ended a flatbed tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing the bus driver and injuring nearly two dozen passengers.
Then in July, one person was killed and 30 injured in a crash in Waterloo when a New York City-bound  Farr’s Coach Lines bus was pulling onto Interstate 90 when it was hit in the rear by a tractor-trailer. Both vehicles burst into flames.
On Aug. 3, 2011, a charter bus headed to Trenton from upstate New York was going too fast when it crashed and flipped over. Thirty people were hurt including a woman who was pinned underneath dollar rent a car discounts the bus.