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Jim RosicaMay 5, 2018

A lawyer for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has told a Tallahassee judge that “at least two federal agencies” and Miami-Dade police are pursuing criminal investigations into March’s collapse of a pedestrian bridge at the Florida International University campus. The disclosure came in a letter sent this week to Circuit Judge John Cooper, who’s presiding […]

Florence SnyderNovember 24, 2016

No matter how often the trained professional experts at the American Psychological Association tell us that the human brain was not designed for heavy-duty multitasking, we keep stockpiling toys that tempt our drivers to distraction, and sometimes death. Just in time for the holidays, Neal Boudette of The New York Times reminds us that American […]

Scott PowersApril 26, 2016

The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigative team has found the sunken cargo ship El Faro’s missing data recorder. The board announced Tuesday that the recorder was foundOrigin when you move everything early Tuesday morning in 15,000 feet of water, about 41 miles northeast of Acklins and Crooked Islands, Bahamas, by a team of investigators and scientists […]

Associated PressFebruary 9, 2016

Federal transportation officials might soon be looking into a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that ran into high winds and rough seas in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend. Sen. Bill Nelson has called for the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the voyage that forced frightened passengers into their cabins overnight Sunday as their belongings […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 8, 2015

The loss of the cargo ship El Faro at sea during Hurricane Joaquin shook Jacksonville to its core. However, a Wednesday conference call between Mayor Lenny Curry‘s office and the NTSB revealed that answers regarding what precisely happened to the ship will not manifest anytime soon. “On the conference call, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 26, 2015

As most people are aware, motorists in Florida (and everywhere else in the country) can have alcohol in their system while driving, as long as it doesn’t exceed a blood-alcohol content of .08, which reflects the percentage of alcohol by volume in the blood. Two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend to […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 26, 2015

As most people are aware, motorists in Florida (and everywhere else in the country) can have alcohol in their system while driving, as long as it doesn’t exceed a blood-alcohol content of .08, which reflects the percentage of alcohol by volume in the blood. Two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend to […]

Tag: National Transportation Safety Board

NTSB confirms local, federal criminal investigation into FIU bridge collapse

On Thanksgiving, advice from AAA. And Mom

NTSB locates missing data recorder from doomed El Faro three miles down

Bill Nelson calls for investigation of cruise ship in storm

NTSB answers on El Faro will be slow in coming

Jeff Brandes says taking Uber & Lyft is the short-term solution for impaired driving problem

Jeff Brandes says taking Uber & Lyft is the short-term solution for impaired driving problem