This time, it's Nevada, a Greyhound bus, a sleepy driver and an expressway off-ramp. By now, you should know the rest.
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At 3:20 yesterday morning, a Greyhound bus on Schedule 1309 from New York City to Los Angeles missed the curve on an off-ramp from Interstate 15 to Glendale, Nevada. That's in the southeast corner of Nevada, thirty miles west of Arizona and fifty miles northeast of Las Vegas, as depicted in this map that ran in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal. The usual catastrophe occurred.
The bus flipped and rolled. As you can see from the above picture from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the bus emerged essentially structurally intact. However, everybody on the bus was injured because nobody on the bus, other than the driver, had a seat belt. There were about seven critical injuries. Several people were ejected from the bus. Injuries included head injuries, broken backs and other internal injuries. Just like the crash in Colorado three days earlier.
Still, the government refuses to acknowledge that there is a problem with passenger safety on busses.
There is a problem. The problem is a lack of 3-point seat belts for passengers.
The problem has now become a national health epidemic, and an international epidemic, too, since the same thing is happening in other countries on a daily basis.
Last month, I told you that I've accepted additional duties at the radio station where I broadcast the Rob Sherman Show. After two more bus disasters in the last four days, I decided that I want to focus as much time as possible working to get the laws changed in this country to require 3-PSBs on all busses.
I contacted Joe Gentile, the owner of WJJG, yesterday and asked him to please find somebody else to host the local cut-ins from the Cool Cars Under the Stars show on Wednesdays, and to drop my Monday show, too. I would keep the Thursday show for the purpose of maintaining a forum for gaining access to the decision-makers in government. Joe reluctantly agreed to my request.
I will now be spending as much time as I possibly can in getting school districts, municipalities, state legislatures and Congress to require 3-PSBs on all busses, but especially school busses, where kids essentially don't have a choice about whether or not to endanger their lives by climbing aboard Big Yellow.
The lack of 3-PSBs on busses is a national and international health emergency. My next stop will be the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation. The NHTSA is the agency that is responsible for investigates safety defects in motor vehicles and reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
Here are links to other stories about yesterday's Nevada bus disaster:
CNN Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Sun
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