Implementing Technology Could Make Bus Trips Safer

by Zoe Chace, NPR

Dozens of people have been killed in recent bus crashes. Three accidents this month spurred a Senate subcommittee to hold a hearing on the matter. The Transportation Department says about half of all motor coach fatalities in recent years have occurred as the result of rollovers, and about 70 percent of those killed in rollover accidents were ejected from the bus.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, March 31, 2011