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Data reporter, @propublica. Past: @PittsburghPG, @washingtonpost, @MedillSchool. Former software engineer.

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A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record.

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By Willoughby Mariano Verified, Joel Jacobs, Mariam Elba
| ProPublica
Reporting Highlights Missing Crashes: The federal system for tracking serious bus crashes fails to identify most of a major company’s fatal collisions. Fatalities Across the Nation: The buses run by one major transportation company were involved in at least 60 fatal crashes over 10 years; the database notes only 18. A Schoolboy Killed: The death of a Boston 5-year-old last year was one of the accidents not counted under the name of the bus operator, Transdev, a major transportation company.
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A deadly Boston school bus crash is among dozens missing from a company's federal safety record

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By Willoughby Mariano Verified, Joel Jacobs, Mariam Elba
| WBUR News Verified
On the day 5-year-old Lens Joseph was killed by a Boston Public Schools bus last year, the driver had already struck a postal truck, ignored a stop sign and missed several stops, prosecutors said. When he got to Lens’ house, he dropped him off on the wrong side of the street and then ran over the kindergartner as he crossed in front of the bus. Transdev, a multinational company that has been the city’s sole bus contractor since 2013, hired and trained the driver of the bus that killed Lens.
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A Georgia U.S. Senate candidate says foreign truckers are making America’s roads unsafe. His own truckers have caused harm.

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By Max Blau Verified, Joel Jacobs, Susan Catron
| Coastal Navigator
A Georgia congressman running for one of the country’s most competitive U.S. Senate seats has vowed in social media posts and interviews to make America’s roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens. “If you can’t read English road signs,” Mike Collins, a Republican, posted on Facebook in April, “you don’t belong behind the wheel.
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