International Business News - Bus http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Eight students are being treated for injuries in Columbia, South Carolina after a crash between a school bus and another vehicle. Emergency Medical Services workers said the injured students were taken to a hospital shortly after the accident Wednesday morning. There was no immediate word whether anyone in the other vehicle was hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/8-students-injured-in-school-bus-accident-in-sc.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:40 EST A 14-year-old boy is dead after a van jumped a curb and crashed into several students at a bus stop in Southern California. South Gate Police Lt. Russ Galbreath says the driver struck several students after classes let out at a nearby middle school. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/van-hits-group-of-students-in-calif-teen-killed.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:03:02 EST New York City police say a 20-year-old man has confessed to fatally stabbing a bus driver in front of horrified passengers. Police said the man was facing homicide charges Tuesday after witnesses identified him in a lineup. The man was questioned Monday night after investigators tracked him down at his girlfriend's apartment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/nypd-passenger-kills-bus-driver-in-fare-dispute.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:46:34 EST A 14-year-old boy is dead after a van jumped a curb and crashed into several students at a bus stop in Southern California. South Gate Police Lt. Russ Galbreath says the driver struck several students after classes let out at a nearby middle school. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/van-hits-group-of-students-in-calif-teen-killed.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:34:47 EST A man stabbed a city bus driver to death over being denied a free ride, then escaped on foot Monday in the first killing of an on-duty New York City bus driver in more than a quarter-century, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/nypd-angry-passenger-stabs-bus-driver-to-death.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:01:03 EST School bus drivers plan to strike in Puerto Rico, pressing the government to pay $30 million in back wages they claim they're due. Union spokesman Carlos Ramirez says drivers will begin their strike in 11 cities on Monday and continue indefinitely. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/puerto-rico-bus-drivers-seek-30-mln-in-back-pay.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:08:41 EST Three school buses collided in a chain-reaction crash Monday in southwestern Arkansas, sending dozens of youngsters to a hospital but few with serious injuries, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/at-least-6-hurt-as-3-school-buses-crash-in-ark.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:52:02 EST A school bus driver will be charged with endangering a 10-year-old boy for intentionally braking suddenly so the boy would fall down, police said. The driver was upset because the boy would not remain in his seat, Harmony Township police Sgt. Jim Essek said. The driver told the boy to stop moving around before allegedly threatening him by saying, "If you do it again, I'll knock you down," Essek said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/bus-driver-accused-of-braking-hard-to-topple-pupil.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:44:07 EST A Texas bus driver in a crash last year that killed four people will face manslaughter charges because there isn't enough evidence to charge him with negligent homicide. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/manslaughter-charges-filed-in-2007-ark-bus-crash.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:53:31 EST The Chinese government says 18 people have died after a bus overturned in Tibet. The State Administration of Work Safety said in a notice on its Web site Monday the bus flipped over on Friday morning in Naqu district. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/18-people-died-after-a-bus-overturned-in-tibet.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:40:59 EST Fifteen charred bodies found in a burned-out bus in eastern Guatemala were shot before being set on fire, prosecutors said Monday. Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez said the killings may have been drug related. He said parts of the vehicle, which originated in Nicaragua, had been violently torn away, as if someone was looking for secret compartments. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172683-guatemala-bus-fire.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/victims-of-guatemalan-bus-fire-were-shot-first.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/victims-of-guatemalan-bus-fire-were-shot-first.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:36:09 EST Authorities say 16 people are slightly injured after a bus carrying prison inmates crashed on a freeway near Los Angeles. California Highway Patrol Officer Luis Mendoza says the bus hit a guardrail on Interstate 10 in El Monte on Thursday afternoon. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/bus-carrying-inmates-crashes-in-la-area-10-hurt.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:10:51 EST A bus fire that killed 20 people in northern Germany may have been caused by a spark from the undercarriage, prosecutors said Wednesday, discounting an initial theory that the blaze was started by a cigarette. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/168504-germany-bus-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/germany-prosecutors-probe-deadly-bus-fire.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/germany-prosecutors-probe-deadly-bus-fire.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:16:41 EST A tour bus caught fire on a highway near the northern German city of Hannover on Tuesday night, killing 20 people, after a passenger reportedly sneaked a cigarette, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/20-dead-in-german-bus-accident.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:47:38 EST A passenger bus rolled into a gorge near a popular ski resort on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people in northern India, police said. The bus plunged 650 feet into a gorge near Kufri, nearly 200 miles north of New Delhi, said R.M. Sharma, the superintendent of police. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/report-bus-accident-kills-24-in-india.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:48:57 EST Police shot and killed an armed man who tried to commandeer a bus in India's financial capital on Monday, while demanding to speak with a fiery politician who has been stirring up anger against migrant workers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/police-kill-man-who-opens-fire-on-indian-bus.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:59:06 EDT Three school buses carrying 79 middle school students on a class trip collided Friday in western Connecticut, injuring 19 children. The seventh-grade students from Sage Park Middle School in Windsor were returning home from a trip to White Memorial Conservation Park. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/conn-school-buses-collide-at-least-20-kids-hurt.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:01:15 EDT California Highway Patrol records show a charter bus that crashed and killed nine people earlier this month was not inspected for safety because the owner failed to report it as the law required. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/officials-bus-in-fatal-calif-crash-not-inspected.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:48:25 EDT California Highway Patrol records show a charter bus that crashed and killed nine people earlier this month was not inspected for safety because the owner failed to report it as the law required. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/officials-bus-in-fatal-calif-crash-not-inspected.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:57:15 EDT A school bus packed with preschoolers who had been on a field trip to pick pumpkins overturned on a New Jersey exit ramp Monday, and 15 kids suffered minor injuries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/some-nj-kids-slightly-hurt-when-bus-overturns.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:39:11 EDT