Tour company investigating Alberta glacier bus crash that killed three
July 20, 2020 Bill Graveland - THE CANADIAN PRESSCOLUMBIA ICEFIELD, Alta. – The president of the company that runs the bus tours at the Columbia Icefield between Banff and Jasper said changes will be made, if necessary, after a rollover on the glacier killed three people and sent…
Electronic logs will be mandatory for truck, bus drivers
June 14, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESSETOBICOKE, Ont. – Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices – one of the recommendations from a coroner’s report into the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The federal department says the tamper-resistant devices will…
No ‘silver bullet’ for bus passenger safety: Commons committee
June 13, 2019 Teresa Wright - THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA – A committee of MPs who probed bus-passenger safety in Canada has decided not to call for seatbelts to be installed in Canadian school buses, urging further study instead. The House of Commons transportation committee launched an investigation into…
How this auto client got bus-ted
June 7, 2019 by Greg MeckbachA British Columbia motorist whose sharp right turn made a bus brake suddenly has lost his dispute with the Insurance Corporation of B.C. Wen Sheng Li was involved in an accident in Vancouver on June 1, 2018. ICBC found him…
Experts call for federal investigation of fatal bus crash
January 14, 2019 Alanna Rizza THE CANADIAN PRESSExperts are calling on the federal transportation safety board to investigate a deadly bus crash in Ottawa to prevent similar incidents from occurring again. Ahmed Shalaby, a civil engineering professor at the University of Manitoba, said the Transportation Safety Board…