Early morning Saturday, March 12, in New York City, a Wide World Tours coach returning from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut to Chinatown overturned along Interstate 95 in the Bronx and slid into a highway sign, killing 15 people and injuring 20. Monday evening, a Super Luxury Tours motorcoach careened off the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick and struck a concrete overpass support near the Route 18 interchange, lurched across all three lanes and came to rest on the side of the road. One passenger died in the crash. The driver died after being ejected 15 feet through the windshield. These two fatal accidents evoked the public outcry over the overall safety of passengers riding on motorcoaches that has now become predictable. In the aftermath, New York Senator Charles Schumer and Representative Nydia Velasquez complained to the National Transportation Safety Board, citing the first crash “as just another example of an industry that in many cases is operating outside the bounds of city, state and federal transportation safety guidelines,” according to the Associated Press.

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The American Bus Associate’s Vice President, Regulatory & Industry Affairs and Executive Director, Bus Industry Safety Council speaks on BUSRide magazine.

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is fully in tune with the tremendous role the motorcoach industry plays in bringing customers and vacationers to its Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT. The company demonstrates its industry savvy through its daily operation of four separate motorcoach segments so as to avoid any confusion.