The Hill News

When passengers boarded a World Wide Tours bus from New York City to a nearby casino, they had no idea they were gambling with their life. The bus driver, way over his hours of service and fatigued, fell asleep causing the bus to strike a guard rail, tip to its side before slamming into a pole sheering it from end to end. In the end, several passengers were injured and 14 were killed.

This horrible tragedy and numerous others including the March 2011 tour bus crash in New Hampshire and the most recent one that occurred earlier this month in Virginia, operated by Sky Express, could have been prevented if law enforcement were permitted to inspect these buses and their drivers enroute during their trip.

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