Posted on 03/28/2017 8:47:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Inadequate highway markings caused a fatal Greyhound bus crash in California last year that killed two people and injured 13 others, including the driver, federal officials said Tuesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board report said that the lack of reflective warning markers on U.S. Highway 101 made the bus driver think he was in the connector lane when he was actually heading straight into a concrete barrier on that dark, rainy morning.
The California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, did not properly mark the area separating the two lanes, the board said.
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Good thinking.
Sue the ultimate deep pocket: THE TAXPAYERS.
Non consistant lane markings are going yo be very problemstic to autonomous vehicles...
Snow covered roadways are a whole ‘nother level of trouble....
Them Liers are stupid smart ......
Sounds like the bus driver was driving way too fast and over-driving his headlights. Come on...he followed lane markers right into a concrete divider? How the hell could somebody do that? If you drive the right speed for conditions, that simply doesn’t happen.
Then why didn’t every vehicle on the road that morning drive into the barrier?
Bingo!
It’s ALWAYS: Train hits car,
but NEVER: Car drives in front of train.
And how many millions of people have been through that area on a rainy day and not crashed?
It should be “Driver of car fails Physics application real world test and doesn’t beat Train”.
Indeed!
I’ve yet to see a picture of a train that jumped off the tracks and chased down a car!
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