Texas bus company in crash has faced vehicle problems before
LAREDO, Texas (AP) — The small South Texas bus company involved in a rollover crash that killed eight people and injured 44 others had twice been ordered by Louisiana state inspectors in 2015 to take one of its buses off the road to fix brake and emergency exit problems.
Records posted online by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration show that regulators ordered OGA Charters to sideline the bus in May 2015 because of brake problems and again in August of last year when they were getting worse.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived Sunday in Laredo to try to determine a cause of the crash.
According to federal online records, OGA Charters has two buses and the Motor Carrier Safety Administration had it listed with a "satisfactory" rating in May 2014.
Department of Public Safety officials did not immediately return phone messages Sunday.