ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state Department of Transportation has begun a program to inspect buses that carry customers to whitewater rafting and tubing trips, following a fatal accident this summer.
Glens Falls Post-Star (http://bit.ly/1lTVjG5 ) reports that the agency had dozens of outfitters’ buses brought to Gore Mountain Ski Center in North Creek one day last month for inspection.
Safety questions were raised after the July 5 crash that killed a 15-year-old guide for a Lake Luzerne tubing company. The bus driver told state police the brakes failed, but police later said an examination found no sign of mechanical problems.
The buses were already subject to annual state inspections, but not the commercial inspections that tour buses receive.
DOT spokesman Beau Duffy said the agency is developing an annual inspection program for outfitter buses.
