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HIGHWAY ACCIDENT REPORT: MOTORCOACH RUN-OFF-THE-ROAD ACCIDENT, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MAY 9, 1999.
| 题名： | HIGHWAY ACCIDENT REPORT: MOTORCOACH RUN-OFF-THE-ROAD ACCIDENT, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MAY 9, 1999. |
| 关键词： | Bus-drivers; Buses-; Certification-; Crashworthiness-; Drugged-drivers; Fatalities-; Guardrails-; Injuries-; Medical-examinations-and-tests; New-Orleans-Louisiana; Occupant-protection-devices; Posts-; Ran-off-road-accidents; Recommendations- |
| 摘要： | On May 9, 1999, about 9:00 a.m., a 1997 Motor Coach Industries 55-passenger motorcoach, operated by Custom Bus Charters, Incorporated, was traveling eastbound on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The bus, carrying 43 passengers, was en route from La Place, Louisiana, to a casino approximately 80 miles away in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As the bus approached milepost 1.6, it departed the right side of the highway, crossed the shoulder, and went onto the grassy side slope alongside the shoulder. The bus continued on the side slope, struck the terminal end of a guardrail, traveled through a chain-link fence, vaulted over a paved golf cart path, collided with the far side of a dirt embankment, and then bounced and slid forward upright to its final resting position. Twenty-two passengers were killed, the bus driver and 15 passengers received serious injuries, and 5 passengers received minor injuries. The following major safety issues were identified in this accident: Inadequacy of the medical certification process, including the current Federal regulations; Absence of a mechanism for identifying drivers who have tested positive for drugs; Lack of Federal regulations or standards regarding passive and active occupant protection systems on large buses sold or operated in the United States; and Degraded condition of the guardrail posts along the interstate at the accident site. As a result of this accident investigation, the Safety Board makes recommendations to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. In addition, the Safety Board is reiterating recommendations from its 1999 bus crashworthiness special investigation report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. |
| 总页数： | 2001/08/28. pp128 (Phots., Figs., Tabs., 10 App.) |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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