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  • Emergency personnel respond to the bus crash on Interstate 95 in the Bronx borough of New York on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in which at least 14 people died. The bus, returning to New York from a casino in southeastern Connecticut, flipped onto its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.)

    Feds cracking down on unsafe bus companies

    Twenty-six bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations in what federal officials say is the government's largest single safety crackdown of the motor coach industry.


  • ** FILE ** In this March 12, 2011 photo, Emergency personnel investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York. Twenty-six bus operations that operated between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

    Bus companies shut down for safety violations

    Government safety officials swooped down on more than two dozen curbside bus operations that mostly ferry passengers in the busy East Coast transportation corridor between New York and Florida, shuttering them for safety violations in the largest-ever single federal crackdown on the industry.


  • An investigator with the Montana Department of Transportation's Motor Carrier Division looks at the interior of a Rimrock Stages bus that crashed on any icy stretch of Interstate 90 east of Missoula, Mont., on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, killing two passengers. (AP Photo/The Missoulian, Kurt Wilson)

    Bus crashes in Montana; 2 reported dead

    A bus crashed Sunday on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing at least two people and sending more than two dozen to area hospitals, officials said.


  • **FILE** U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Associated Press)

    Run rogue bus operators off road, industry urges

    The Obama administration's "relentless" war on unsafe bus companies has claimed at least a dozen victims over the past two years — and the industry wants to see more.


  • Officials: Bus crash injures more than 30 in Neb.

    A Denver-bound bus rammed into an overturned semitrailer on Interstate 80 in south-central Nebraska early Thursday morning, injuring more than 30 people aboard, officials said.


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