Perspective
Jan. 19, 2017
SB 247: Crash inspires charter bus safety regulations
Requires all California charter bus drivers to give written or oral safety instructions before each trip, just like what flight attendants do for plane passengers. By Geoff Wells
Geoffrey S. Wells
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Greene, Broillet & Wheeler LLP
100 Wilshire Blvd Fl 21
Santa Monica , CA 90401-1116
Phone: (310) 576-1200
Email: gwells@gbw.law
Pepperdine Law School
As a survivor of one of our state's most deadly and tragic charter bus accidents, Santiago Calderon of Oxnard turned his grief into action.
On April 10, 2014, Calderon joined dozens of college-bound, high school students from Southern California on a charter bus trip to visit Humboldt State University. On the last leg of the ride, a FedEx tractor-trailer jumped the median on Interstate 5 in Orland and smashed into the bus.
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