National Transportation Safety Board Highway Accident Report: Greyhound Motorcoach Run-off-the-Road Accident, Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1998.

摘要

On June 20, 1998, about 4:05 a.m., on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania, a Greyhound Lines, Inc., motorcoach traveled off the right side of the roadway into an emergency parking area. It struck the back of a parked tractor-semitrailer, which was pushed forward and struck the left side of another parked tractor-semitrailer. Of the 23 people on board the bus, the driver and 6 passengers were killed; the othe 16 passengers were injured. The two occupants of the first tractor-semitrailer were injured, and the occupant of the second tractor-semitrailer was uninjured. The major safety issues discussed in this report are the busdrivers' performance, the adequacy of carrier oversight, the adequacy of the design and the appropriateness of the use of pull-off areas, the lack of motorcoach emergency interior lighting and retroreflective signage, and the organization of the disaster preparedness and emergency response management.