Sleepy Bus Driver Alarms AC/DC Fans
August 11, 2009, 15 years ago
CBC News is reporting:
A Nova Scotia woman who travelled home from an AC/DC concert in Moncton last Thursday night on a Saint John-based charter bus says passengers feared for their safety because their driver kept nodding off at the wheel.
Valeda MacDougall, of New Minas, who bought a concert ticket that included a round trip on a Can-Am Charters bus, said the driver finally admitted to passengers that he had been awake for 28 hours.
After the concert, she said, it took until after midnight for the bus to navigate the traffic in Moncton and make it out onto the Trans-Canada Highway.
The bus was taking passengers to Truro, Halifax, Bridgewater and New Minas. MacDougall said the driver was showing signs of fatigue before they made it to Truro, which is about a 90-minute drive from Moncton.
"Before we even got to Truro, the bus driver started hitting the rumble strips along the edge of the highway. He probably hit them four or five times, and he was going over the dotted line," she said."And we were driving right down the centre of the road, and sometimes his speed would go down to 60 in a 110 [km/h] zone. It was very erratic."
Can-Am Charters hasn't responded to the CBC's request for comment.
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