Fall 2012
Applied Learning Assignment #5
This assignment is required.
Maximum Possible Points: The maximum number of points you may earn for this assignment is 50.
You are to work on this assignment alone without assistance from others; however, you may use your text, class lectures and your notes in completing the assignment.
Points earned from this assignment will be added to your total point score for the semester. (See the course syllabus for the course grading scale.)
Due Date Mon., Nov. 12th: This is an out-of-class assignment and is to be turned in no later than the beginning of class on the due date.
The Assignment: Read the news articles and the federal regulations that follow. Answer the questions about potential claims. Please note: • Your answers are to be marked on the Assignment. Mark clearly to show which answer you have selected. • Write your name on the Assignment Sheet. Submit a hard copy of the entire Assignment Sheet.
NTSB releases details on Lake Butler crash
No charges have been filed against bus driver, although a criminal investigation continues.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 3, 2006
LAKE BUTLER, FLORIDA – The truck driver who plowed into a car at a school bus stop last week killing seven children had been awake for 34 hours, except for a short nap, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
David Rayburn, the lead NTSB investigator for the Lake Butler crash, said the 31-year-old truck driver, Alvin Wilkerson, was refusing to talk to investigators about the accident.
Rayburn and Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Leeper refused to release the name of Wilkerson’s attorney. Calls to Crete Carrier Corp., the Lincoln, Nebraska, trucking company Wilkerson drove for, were not immediately returned.
Blood tests showed he had not been using alcohol