During the past 6 years, our customers have discontinued the use of 74% of their 12- and 15-passenger vans for transporting children and adults. This is a great accomplishment (although we’d prefer it to be 100%). It’s important to keep up the education on why these vehicles are so dangerous, especially with new hires...
Transportation
Our hearts go out to the Bronx
Our hearts go out to the family and friends who lost 6 of their loved ones this weekend in this passenger van accident (see articles below) in New York, and we hope for rapid healing for the other 8 injured, as well as for the Joy Fellowship Christian Assemblies community. New York Daily News CNN Please encourage any...
12-15 Passenger Vans, Still A Bad Option
Recently, we released a document about the use of 12-15 passenger vans: 15 passenger vans – still in use, still deadly (versions: YMCA, JCC, Camps). The document reviews two recent news stories where passengers were killed from accidents in vans. In 2004 we started an initiative to raise awareness of the dangers in using 12-15 passenger...
Is Your Bus Clear?
Image used with permission from flickr.com When I was about 2 years old my mother locked me and her keys in the car. She immediately realized it and tried to tell me to open the door. I was too young to understand and thought we were playing a game. Inside the car I was content...
Bus flips 4 times, results in 0 major injuries
Recently, we received an emergency hotline call from one of our YMCA customers about a crash involving one of their mini-buses. A group of staff and children were traveling in a nine-passenger bus when they swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle, sending the bus off of the roadway and causing it to flip four times before coming to a rest. Though...