In every modern-day, we hear about some pedestrians who got smashed by a bus; traffic accidents are persistently something you typically see ongoing in New Jersey. No media is accurately referring to these events. Even the New Jersey State official police website would not give any accurate number of the premature deaths caused by NJ Transit and Coach USA bus drivers killing pedestrians.
Many innocent people die unnecessarily from the bus companies hiring bus drivers, and we wouldn’t know; if the bus drivers are receiving their arbitrary punishments. Or just getting away with the crime, and the dead people stay without getting the right of justice and the fairness they deserve.
Local families remain deplorable about what happened instantly to their innocent children’s tragic deaths, and the question remains. Why are the New Jersey Transit and town police silent? Realistically, are the individualistic people who died instantly are truly wrong? Or is it the alleged bribes they willingly receive from the transportation companies, corrupt governments, the bus ATU local 819- (Amalgamated Transit Union), and SMART-TD union, who should know that people who die are innocent souls?
The NJ Transit and Coach USA agencies should embody some sense of humanity in themselves. Just like they have for their NJ Transit work who have died from COVID 19. Many questions we propose after hearing about all these increasing demises swept under the rug.
Why do killer drivers return to their appropriate jobs after killing pedestrians? Why do developed state and private-public transportation agencies claim that the cultural safety of passengers and pedestrians is important to them when we see that their drivers are the ones who mitigate them and do not even admit their actions?
With all of these killings by NJ Transit and Coach USA, I asked myself- why the government doesn’t include transparency in its workplace? On the official website of the state of New Jersey, we find the pedestrian protection law, which states: Motorists who see the pedestrian (s) in a marked crosswalk MUST: MOTORISTS in New Jersey MUST stop for pedestrians in a marked crosswalk.
The failure to observe the law may subject you to one or more penalties that are as follows: keep reading here (https://www.nj.gov/oag/hts/pedestrian.html), and yet it is still only ink on paper. Why are NJ Transit and Coach USA bus drivers not following the New Jersey motorists’ law? Or should the law apply to the bus driver as a motorist? It should apply to the bus drivers considering the transit bus driver represents a motorist too, just like national citizens operating their vehicle?
In New Jersey state, people are dying at a rate of 1.61 out of every hundred thousand citizens due to traffic accidents every year. New Jersey is one of the states with the highest death rate through traffic accidents. This number increased within last year compared to the previous years- by 9%, as nearly 191 people died.
How can we combat this?
To reduce the number of local people who die annually from traffic fatality may want to consider adopting New York Vision Zero plans.
When referring unambiguously to the New Jersey Pedestrian Safety Action Plan published in June 2014, recorded that they are trying to reduce the number of accidents in New Jersey by analyzing the driver’s data. It will help us to better understand the problem and answer any questions. Who is causing the accident? What represents the unique circumstances that lead to the accident?
According to the Action Plan, present statistics from 2006 to 2011 were typically utilized in this published study. When trying to comprehend the leading causes that caused these imminent deaths, the specific information was voluntarily reported in two modern forms: innocent people who tragically died and people who were gravely injured. This comprehensive analysis is contingent on data obtained from Plan4Safety, an electronic database owned by Rutgers University. Although this indicator is positive, it appears that we are experiencing a problem. Despite the fact, the existing data on these accidents are not accurate, according to Ali Maher, Director of Rutgers University Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transport. The current data is very few, as well as most of it requires a manual review to be verified and corroborated.
Immeasurably from the solutions offered by Rutgers University, we must search for our results without entirely relying on the university’s progression in its research on how to reduce the number of accidents associated with pedestrians and motorists on the roads. The database will help the safety community to implement some corrective action dealing with these increasing fatalities.
When it comes to Rutgers studies dealing with pedestrians killed by NJ Transit vehicular operators – they mainly focus on people killed by the trains, not the bus operators. Unfortunately, the Rutgers’s accident studies do not include the mystery, why an astronomical number of pedestrians are ending up dead by NJ Transit and Coach USA bus drivers speeding on the road. The Rutgers studies on pedestrians’ deaths contributed to some of these fatalities on poor infrastructure and lack of sidewalk connections.
NJ Transit/Coach USA pedestrian death victims’ families and surviving pedestrians left with life-changing injuries can inform you that poor infrastructure is not the only reason pedestrians in New Jersey are being killed. The other leading causes on -why these pedestrians are seriously injured or dead. The catastrophic death and injuries are the bus drivers speeding, jumping the curbs not being qualified, and not adequately trained for street safety where pedestrians stand. NJ Transit and Coach USA bus drivers have no respect for pedestrians and cyclists. I do not grasp why the people who write the articles dealing with bus deaths do not condemn the bus drivers.
The journalist and Department of Transportation always overlook the true villain of pedestrian deaths. Stop defending these bus drivers. The bus drivers have control of their driving, not the victims. There should not be a double standard with the police when dealing with a pedestrian killed by a citizen motorist in a crash compared to being wounded by a state-run public transportation bus driver as an accident. There should be a draconian law to protect pedestrians from bus drivers who are killing them with the bus with no remorse for human lives. US Senator Bob Melendez sponsors a bill to safeguard transit works from pedestrians for passengers who assault drivers. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy had recently sponsored a law to protect pedestrians and cyclists killed by non-NJ Transit and Coach USA motorists.
Lamentable today, neither politician signed a bill to protect pedestrians’ safety caused by NJ Transit and Coach USA bus drivers.
The public transportation agency should not let drivers work in states of fatigue, a psychological disability putting other human lives in jeopardy, drunkenness, or any problem that eradicates them out of their focus. The bus drivers should undergo countless tests- they are ending many pedestrians’ lives with deadly personalities. This noxious matter has become unbearable due to the prodigious number of people who die.
Rutgers studies should also conduct awareness campaigns for drivers and distribute posters with tips on reducing the overwhelming number of victims’ demise caused by the transportation drivers and various tips that can be useful. The transport agency, NJ Transit Police, and bus Union need to put religious accountability on the bus drivers and stop having the taxpayer pay for all of these lawsuits caused by the bus drivers.
