Greyhound Sued Over PA Highway Crash Injuries
Jon Ostroff was featured in the The Legal Intelligencer’s Article ‘Greyhound Sued Over Pennsylvania highway Crash Injuries’.
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Humboldt University College Preview Weekend Ends in Fiery I-5 Bus Crash
On April 10, 2013, 44 high school students from Southern California boarded a Silverado Stages charter bus to visit Humboldt State University. However, the college preview weekend didn’t go as planned. At 5:30 p.m., the Arcata-bound bus was struck by a FedEx tractor-trailer on I-5 outside the town of Orland. After the bus crash, both […]
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The Story of the Year: Bus Travel Kills. We Told You Here First.
The guy who keeps saying “I told you so” is really annoying, but we can’t resist. For months, we have been telling everyone who will listen that bus travel in the United States is incredibly dangerous. Often enough, it seemed as if nobody was listening. Now, all our work had been vindicated. Late last year, […]
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What Does the New Seatbelt Mandate for Commercial Buses Mean for Your Injury Claim?
If you have been paying close attention to the news in the last few weeks, you may have noticed a news item that has stirred a great deal of interest in the transportation industry. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—a division of the Transportation Department—has issued a regulation requiring lap and shoulder belts on commercial […]
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School Transportation Liability
What happens if a school bus driver causes an accident while transporting your child to or from school? Is there school transportation liability? That’s an easy one. If your child, god forbid, is hurt in the bus accident, then yes, you have the right to sue the school district. It is difficult to sue the government, […]
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The Special Challenges of Transit Bus Cases
National media attention naturally goes to interstate bus crashes—either charter bus accidents or tour bus and motorcoach crashes along regular routes between cities. Because those accidents involve lots of people from many communities, those accidents have widespread news value. When you consider news as a business, such accidents sell to a wider area than a […]
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Greyhound’s Distracted Driving Policy
Greyhound has a written policy prohibiting bus operators from using cell phones while operating a bus However, the company does not enforce the policy. In one case, the evidence confirmed that a Greyhound driver and his bus was unable to be located for several hours. The passengers at the terminal in Philadelphia waited over four […]
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When You See Flashing Red—Use Your Head
Whether you have kids of school age or not, you no doubt have noticed that school is back in session for most districts in Pennsylvania. With the advent of school comes the extra measure of alertness and awareness required of all drivers. Still, it is all too common to see cars being driven through flashing […]
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What Happens When You Do Not Stop for a Pennsylvania School Bus?
Driving while school buses are out on the roads requires attention and a certain amount of patience. School buses stop often to pick up or drop off children and when they do so Pennsylvania law requires traffic to stop. However, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reports that approximately 1,000 people are ticketed each year for […]
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