Months after their state-certified automotive testing laboratory by federal authorities due to deficiencies in a bus to note that crashed in North Texas has been quoted locked killing 17 passengers, brothers, Alam and Cesar Hernandez of their company. But that doesn't mean that they were the business of the inspection.
Instead, she opened another in the same neighborhood of Houston and still buses as consider participating in the accident. And they did it with the consent of the Texas Department of public safety.
The Hernandez brothers history underscores a phenomenon, the highway safety advocates say long has, perform with deadly consequences - the lack of supervision for the companies, the Government checks of buses and other large commercial vehicles.
Marked records by the associated press show that three of the deadliest bus in recent years increased questions about the commercial vehicle inspection programs in Texas, Illinois and Mississippi crashes and prompted calls from the National Transportation Safety Board for better supervision. Forty people died in this wreck, but the Agency, which the recommendations were directed, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has refused to act.
Anne Ferro, which went administrator, FMCSA through a spokeswoman, to comment. The Agency has referred already additional control of the State programs unnecessary.
The lack of action has suffered safety advocates, who believe that government regulators are not attentive to the needs of bus travelers.
"If you can't afford to take a plane and take a bus, go second-rate safety standards, both in terms of equipment and supervision of the Federal Government", said Jacqueline Gillan, President of advocates for Highway and auto safety.
Federal regulations require that commercial vehicles are checked annually. These inspections can be performed by government personnel, private garages or the companies, the vehicles. Passing a roadside inspection can satisfy also the request as long as within the previous year.
More than half the States have no prescribed inspection requirements, they open the motor vehicle itself. And also such garages private with approved are not obliged, subject to those companies to provide or quality quality control.
Safety rules in the Senate on March 14 as part of the highway funding bill would approved force the Federal Government to evaluate State inspection programs, but the legislation has come to a halt in the House.
Former FMCSA Director John Hill said that the Agency does not have the resources to monitor controls State commercial vehicle. He said States typically people who does not employ.
"If the person were the Chairman of the NTSB the head of the FMCSA, I guarantee that he or she would talk differently", said Hill, now a trucking industry consultant.
Documents, recently by the AP cast a new light on the crash in the North Texas town of Sherman, one of the worst in the history of the United States.
NTSB researchers found that a blown tire with Houston's Vietnamese Catholic community to a retreat in Missouri careen caused the bus in August 2008 on the highway. But she found evidence, questioning the Hernandez Brothers business, 5 minute inspections, inspection carried out eight days earlier.
The NTSB report cited evidence that the bus had passed inspection in spite of shortcomings, a tire retreading illegally contain attached, the front axle, and fat contamination in one of the brakes.
The NTSB investigation followed a Texas Department of public safety Trooper, a testing the 5 minute inspections and the Inspector, Cesar Hernandez said.
"In the light of all the circumstances, I seriously feel this 'inspection' was ' pencil whipped cream,"' the Trooper wrote in a note after the accident.
Despite these problems the DPS brothers remains granted Hernandez approval for their new business in May 2010, and it a good reputation, records show.
Yen-Chi Le, a Houston of medical researcher, whose Mutter in the crash died, expressed outrage when she learned that the brothers could check still buses.
"We thought there was no way that would to stay in business," she said. "This makes my stomach turn."
A DPS spokesperson said the Agency does not find of the NTSB or the Trooper "sufficient to justify measures" issues raised against the station. However, the Department said to further research Cesar Hernandez suspension for fake inspections of cars have led the speaker.
The DPS employs more than 200 officers and Auditors to support its vehicle inspection program, and it improves its investigative process under a reorganization plan launched two years ago, the spokesman said.
Messages for the brothers were not returned. A lawyer for Cesar Hernandez said that his client didn't want to discuss the matter.
A further accident refers to similar problems with a bus to pass inspection in Illinois.
The NTSB investigation of the crash 2004 Arkansas determines an inspection by a State-approved garage in Chicago two months previously not noticed cracks in the rail support the engine performed. The error was not the cause of the wreck, the 15 members of a tour group killed, but it should have kept the bus from the road to the NTSB.
The garage conducting was at the time inspections, although three months earlier it had not to notice a hole in a school bus silencer, guilty known to Illinois Department of transportation records.
A spokesman for IDOT said that the garage subject to restrictions not, when it controlled the bus because the school bus negotiated case by a judge had to be. The company later received a one-month suspension due to the school bus violation, and it stopped then examine vehicles as a whole, the spokesman said.
Questions about the effectiveness of the motor to check vehicle their own vehicles allows bus came after a Church through Texas, Louisiana in 2003, killing eight passengers.
The bus hit a tractor trailer of Mississippi, which was parked on the shoulder, because the brakes were smoking. The NTSB blamed the crash on the bus driver, but also found that the tractor in a "serious disrepair" despite passing an inspection performed by the President of the company six months earlier was operated.
Mississippi Lt. Donald McCain said that his condition believes that roadside inspections conducted by law enforcement agencies are sufficiently sure that commercial vehicles are properly respected.
Copyright 2012 associated press. All rights reserved. This material cannot be published, sent, rewritten or redistributed.
Instead, she opened another in the same neighborhood of Houston and still buses as consider participating in the accident. And they did it with the consent of the Texas Department of public safety.
The Hernandez brothers history underscores a phenomenon, the highway safety advocates say long has, perform with deadly consequences - the lack of supervision for the companies, the Government checks of buses and other large commercial vehicles.
Marked records by the associated press show that three of the deadliest bus in recent years increased questions about the commercial vehicle inspection programs in Texas, Illinois and Mississippi crashes and prompted calls from the National Transportation Safety Board for better supervision. Forty people died in this wreck, but the Agency, which the recommendations were directed, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has refused to act.
Anne Ferro, which went administrator, FMCSA through a spokeswoman, to comment. The Agency has referred already additional control of the State programs unnecessary.
The lack of action has suffered safety advocates, who believe that government regulators are not attentive to the needs of bus travelers.
"If you can't afford to take a plane and take a bus, go second-rate safety standards, both in terms of equipment and supervision of the Federal Government", said Jacqueline Gillan, President of advocates for Highway and auto safety.
Federal regulations require that commercial vehicles are checked annually. These inspections can be performed by government personnel, private garages or the companies, the vehicles. Passing a roadside inspection can satisfy also the request as long as within the previous year.
More than half the States have no prescribed inspection requirements, they open the motor vehicle itself. And also such garages private with approved are not obliged, subject to those companies to provide or quality quality control.
Safety rules in the Senate on March 14 as part of the highway funding bill would approved force the Federal Government to evaluate State inspection programs, but the legislation has come to a halt in the House.
Former FMCSA Director John Hill said that the Agency does not have the resources to monitor controls State commercial vehicle. He said States typically people who does not employ.
"If the person were the Chairman of the NTSB the head of the FMCSA, I guarantee that he or she would talk differently", said Hill, now a trucking industry consultant.
Documents, recently by the AP cast a new light on the crash in the North Texas town of Sherman, one of the worst in the history of the United States.
NTSB researchers found that a blown tire with Houston's Vietnamese Catholic community to a retreat in Missouri careen caused the bus in August 2008 on the highway. But she found evidence, questioning the Hernandez Brothers business, 5 minute inspections, inspection carried out eight days earlier.
The NTSB report cited evidence that the bus had passed inspection in spite of shortcomings, a tire retreading illegally contain attached, the front axle, and fat contamination in one of the brakes.
The NTSB investigation followed a Texas Department of public safety Trooper, a testing the 5 minute inspections and the Inspector, Cesar Hernandez said.
"In the light of all the circumstances, I seriously feel this 'inspection' was ' pencil whipped cream,"' the Trooper wrote in a note after the accident.
Despite these problems the DPS brothers remains granted Hernandez approval for their new business in May 2010, and it a good reputation, records show.
Yen-Chi Le, a Houston of medical researcher, whose Mutter in the crash died, expressed outrage when she learned that the brothers could check still buses.
"We thought there was no way that would to stay in business," she said. "This makes my stomach turn."
A DPS spokesperson said the Agency does not find of the NTSB or the Trooper "sufficient to justify measures" issues raised against the station. However, the Department said to further research Cesar Hernandez suspension for fake inspections of cars have led the speaker.
The DPS employs more than 200 officers and Auditors to support its vehicle inspection program, and it improves its investigative process under a reorganization plan launched two years ago, the spokesman said.
Messages for the brothers were not returned. A lawyer for Cesar Hernandez said that his client didn't want to discuss the matter.
A further accident refers to similar problems with a bus to pass inspection in Illinois.
The NTSB investigation of the crash 2004 Arkansas determines an inspection by a State-approved garage in Chicago two months previously not noticed cracks in the rail support the engine performed. The error was not the cause of the wreck, the 15 members of a tour group killed, but it should have kept the bus from the road to the NTSB.
The garage conducting was at the time inspections, although three months earlier it had not to notice a hole in a school bus silencer, guilty known to Illinois Department of transportation records.
A spokesman for IDOT said that the garage subject to restrictions not, when it controlled the bus because the school bus negotiated case by a judge had to be. The company later received a one-month suspension due to the school bus violation, and it stopped then examine vehicles as a whole, the spokesman said.
Questions about the effectiveness of the motor to check vehicle their own vehicles allows bus came after a Church through Texas, Louisiana in 2003, killing eight passengers.
The bus hit a tractor trailer of Mississippi, which was parked on the shoulder, because the brakes were smoking. The NTSB blamed the crash on the bus driver, but also found that the tractor in a "serious disrepair" despite passing an inspection performed by the President of the company six months earlier was operated.
Mississippi Lt. Donald McCain said that his condition believes that roadside inspections conducted by law enforcement agencies are sufficiently sure that commercial vehicles are properly respected.
Copyright 2012 associated press. All rights reserved. This material cannot be published, sent, rewritten or redistributed.
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