Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Bus crash injures 19 people in Los Angeles

  Claude Wyle | November 11, 2009 6:11 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  They say that misery loves company, and if so, this might be one of the few times that San Francisco loves LA. A Los Angeles county bus collided with another vehicle last week in the Silver Lake...

• New Safety Guidelines Implemented After Muni Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 24, 2009 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Many people have been injured or killed in public transit accidents over the last four months. The most current incident is last week’s crash here in San Francisco, in which nearly fifty...

• Video of West Portal Muni Light Rail Crash Released

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  I've been keeping my readers updated on last Saturday's Muni Metro accident in the West Portal station, including today's earlier post about how switching to manual control before entering a station...

• Disengaged Safeguards Focus of Muni Light Rail Crash

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  It has been less than a week since two Muni Metro trains collided in San Francisco, injuring nearly fifty people. This crash has been only the latest in a series of accidents that have made the last...

• San Francisco Muni Light Rail Trains Collide

  Claude Wyle | July 21, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  In the last three months, nine people have been killed, and more than 170 injured in a series of crashes on the nation’s aging public transit systems. This horrific streak began in Boston, on...

• Soledad Bus Accident Reminds Importance of Bus Safety Guidelines

  Margaret Embry | June 18, 2009 12:21 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A charter bus traveling through Soledad, CA on April 28, 2009 overturned on a Highway 101 overpass killing five and injuring dozens of the French tourist passengers, according to the San Francisco...

• Cable Car Safety Tips

  Margaret Embry | June 16, 2009 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  On Thursday, June 4th, a taxi ran into two cable cars in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. It is unknown what caused the crash, but three cable car operators and the taxi...

• Bus Driver Identified In Fatal Bus Crash; Investigation Ongoing

  Chrissie Cole | April 30, 2009 5:09 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Officials have not determined the cause of a deadly crash of a tour bus crash Tuesday in Monterey County. The bus, carrying 34 French tourists and their guide, overturned on a Highway 101...

• Five Killed In Monterey County Bus Accident

  Chrissie Cole | April 29, 2009 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  At least five people were killed and several were injured in a tour bus accident on the Monterey Peninsula Tuesday on a U.S. 101 overpass near Soledad, officials report. It appears the driver...

• Another San Francisco Muni Pedestrian Accident!

  Claude Wyle | December 13, 2007 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  I wish I was kidding, but I am sad to advise that the San Francisco MUNI has just been involved in its 18th pedestrian accident since this last July. Of these 18 reported MUNI pedestrian accidents, five have caused deaths. While this time, the MUNI bus did not kill anyone, the lady who was struck was taken to San Francisco General with personal injuries. Not surprisingly, although the accident...