Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Tequesta Pedestrian Run Over by Elementary School Bus

  Steve Lombardi | November 02, 2009 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Florida School Bus Hit and Killed a Pedestrian In Palm Beach County, Tequesta, Florida, a pedestrian was hit by a school bus on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 7:15am, according to online news...

• D.C. Woman Pedestrian killed by Metrobus

  Steve Lombardi | October 30, 2009 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...

• Iowa, Another Freight Train-Car Collision Death

  Steve Lombardi | September 24, 2009 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On August 25th 2009 66 year old William Mudd of Hamilton Illinois was hit and killed by a freight train near the Keokuk Yacht club. The Keokuk Police Department says that the accident happened at...

• Downtown Des Moines – DART Drivers 7, Pedestrians 0!

  Steve Lombardi | July 28, 2009 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  When I posted on July 24, 2009 about Des Moines bus drivers hitting pedestrians never did I anticipate that today we’d be once again discussing another bus-pedestrian collision in downtown Des...

• Air France Flight AF-447, Just the facts (Updated June 14, 2009)

  Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 10:17 AM | 9 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Of the 228 people aboard the Air France flight that crashed, it is reported 15 more bodies of passengers have been recovered. Four bodies were men and four women. Brazil reports 17 bodies have...

• Nebraska wrester dies in accident on road from meet in Iowa

  Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A wrestler who died in a van crash while in Iowa has suit filed by his mother. The student was a wrestler for York College and was in a van with ten wrestlers from a Nebraska college. He was from...

• Iowa pedestrian struck and killed by moving train in Tama

  Steve Lombardi | April 25, 2009 6:29 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  An Iowa woman killed by a train has been identified as Kristi Brown of Tama, Iowa. She was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train late Wednesday near a crossing. The train was heading to...

• Vacation Safety: Traveling with baby

  Megan Roth | April 01, 2009 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Six – the number of flights I’ve taken in the last month. Four – the number that have been equipped with screaming children (three times I sat directly next to the parent holding...

• Vacation Safety: Coming 'round the mountain

  Megan Roth | March 18, 2009 7:49 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I just returned from a mini-vacation with my college roommates and I’m proud to say, “I survived” (barely, but I did). Fortunately for us, we had tons of fun and all came back...

• Vacation Safety: What lies beneath...

  Megan Roth | March 12, 2009 8:34 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Dun-uh. Dun-un. Dun-uh. Okay – maybe this isn’t working so well…I’m trying to convey the well-known musical notes from Jaws (I think the fact that I’m musically...