2014

Yesterday, we related the news that the DOT-111A train car currently used to shuttle crude oil across the country may have suffered from safety shortcomings dating back decades.  The issue of train safety has captured the spotlight on the heels of multiple crashes in which a train carrying combustible oil derailed and endangered persons in… read more

Another train wreck has safety advocates and federal officials worried about the current state of the industry.  This time, the National Transportation Safety Board has vowed to look into the matter, and their efforts as well as the current state of things are examined in a new report from the Los Angeles Times. In question… read more

Prompted by recent accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board is looking into the possible adoption of new safety standards on school buses.  The NTSB will meet today to analyze what happened in two separates bus accidents from 2012 that each killed a single student and injured a handful of others.  In each instance, the bus… read more

Highway safety remains vital as we enter an age where technology can protect us in ways that haven’t been possible before.  However, some of those systems have not been implemented in a rapid enough manner, and the National Transportation Safety Board would like to see that change. The NTSB just released a list of the… read more

News sources stated that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that PG&E Corp. exploited the lax regulatory oversight and implemented flawed materials in one of their natural-gas pipelines, resulting in the 2010 San Bruno explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. Chairman of the NTSB Deborah Hersman said that inadequate recordkeeping and… read more