Trump Administration to Ease Rules on Truckers’ Maximum Hours on Road July 3, 2019 By Richard Lardner Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. He’d reached...
Miami Bridge Cracks Were Growing ‘Daily’ Before Deadly Collapse: Records May 10, 2019 By Brendan Farrington Just hours before a pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people at a Miami university, engineers confirmed that cracks in...
Insurers of Collapsed Florida Bridge Builder to Pay $42M to Victims May 8, 2019 Insurers will pay up to $42 million to surviving victims of a 2018 Florida bridge collapse and the families of...
Recording Indicates Amazon Cargo Plane Crew Lost Control Seconds Before Crash March 6, 2019 By Alan Levin Recorded conversations by pilots on a cargo jet carrying packages for Amazon.com Inc. that crashed last month near Houston reveal...
Contractor that Built Miami Pedestrian Bridge that Collapsed Files for Bankruptcy March 6, 2019 The contractor that built a pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed six people last year in Miami is filing for...
Planes, Trains, Autos, Trucks: ’10 Most Wanted’ Transportation Safety Improvements February 4, 2019 By Alan Levin and Ryan Beene Federal safety advocates are targeting three of the worst habits by drivers that kill more than 10,000 people a year:...
Federal Safety Investigators Sidelined by Shutdown Begin Heading to Crash Scenes February 1, 2019 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with...
Safety Board Hearing Probes Fatal Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Explosion November 15, 2018 By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigative hearing on Wednesday into the fatal engine explosion on a Southwest...
Time to Upgrade Airline Black Boxes, Says Safety Board October 19, 2018 By Alan Levin The ubiquitous black boxes on airliners — designed to capture the sometimes gruesome words and sounds leading up to crashes...
National Safety Board Calls for Standards for Drugged Driving Tests October 18, 2018 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin U.S. transportation safety officials are sounding the alarm on drug-impaired driving, calling for state and federal regulators to do more...