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Motor Coach Safety – General Information (CANADA)
- Mileage traveled: 200 million km annually in Canada (107 million inter-city scheduled, and 88 million km charter/tour)
- Buses are the safest vehicle on the road
- Bus passenger fatalities account for less than 1% (0.3%) of all highway fatalities
- Transport Canada has studied bus safety and reported:
- “injury rates place buses among the safest modes of transport”
- “buses provide passengers with remarkably safe travel compared with other road vehicles and other forms of transport”
- “the data show that travel by bus is generally safe”
(Source: Transport Canada Review of Bus Safety Issues, November 1998) - “Canada’s bus safety record is extremely good”
- “Bus passengers are rarely killed or suffer major injury”
(Source: Transport Canada Bus Safety Consultations Final Report, Feb. 2001 TP 13713 E)
- Bus operators take a pro-active approach to ensuring the safety record of the industry is continually improved
- The best carriers in the industry know that investing in safety pays
- Bus operators are subject to a comprehensive set of Federal and Provincial regulations which set strict standards covering:
- driver qualifications and medical condition
- driver hours of work and electronic log books
- daily (pre-trip) inspections
- preventative maintenance programs and “in-service” vehicle fitness standards
- periodic (government controlled) safety inspections
- facility audits by government Carrier Safety Auditors
- insurance