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Ga. Barrier a Site of Previous Wrecks

Saturday, March 10, 2007 4:30:52 PM
By DANIEL YEE

A charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio is seen after it plunged off a highway ramp early Friday, March 2, 2007 in Atlanta and slammed into the I-75 pavement below. Six people were killed and at least 29 hurt when the driver of the Bluffton University team bus apparently mistook an exit ramp in Atlanta as a regular traffic lane. The bus slammed into a barrier at an intersection and overturned, falling 30 feet onto a highway below. An Associated Press analysis of National Transportation Safety Board reports shows that as far back as 1999 the agency recommended that more needs to be done to prevent passengers from being thrown out of buses or tossed around inside, such as seat belts or shatterproof windows. At the time, the agency cited the problem as one of its "most wanted" safety improvements. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)ATLANTA (AP) - Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.

Today, with her left knee still not healed from the 2002 accident, she feels upset that more hasn't been done to prevent accidents there.

"It really bothered both of us," she said of the Bluffton University accident that killed seven. "In retrospect, we probably should have done more as far as insisting they do something to correct the situation."


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