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Bus Company in Fatal Fire Ordered Off Road

Friday, October 07, 2005 7:49:09 PM
By DAVID KOENIG

 Texas Highway Patrol officers examine the back wheels of a bus that caught fire and exploded, killing 23 elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees, on northbound Interstate 45, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 in Wilmer, Texas. This week, the Texas Department of Public Safety said the brakes on the right rear failed because of the loss of wheel bearings and disc caliper and brakes on the left rear were "not maintained in good working order." (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials on Friday ordered the immediate shutdown of a company that operated a bus involved in a fire last month that killed 23 elderly hurricane evacuees along a Texas highway.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it ordered Global Limo Inc. off the road because the conditions of its vehicles and drivers "are likely to result in serious injury or death."

Global operated the bus that caught fire near Dallas on Sept. 23 about 16 hours after leaving Houston with residents of a nursing home who were fleeing Hurricane Rita.


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