A bus crash on the UC Santa Cruz campus in December 2023 led to the death of driver Dan Stevenson and injuries to five passengers. Three of the students recently filed a lawsuit accusing the University of California regents of negligence.
UCSC bus crash Dec. 12, 2023
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UCSC is replacing its 30-year-old buses, but not because of fatal crash
UC Santa Cruz is replacing buses that are more than 30 years old, but officials say the move is unrelated to a fatal accident involving one of them. Last week, the university said the cause of the crash that led to driver Dan Stevenson’s death was due to his failure to negotiate a left turn in the road and had nothing to do with mechanical failure or deficiencies with the vehicle.
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UCSC points to driver error in fatal Dec. 12 bus crash, rules out mechanical cause
UC Santa Cruz closed its investigation into a Dec. 12 bus crash at the base of campus that killed driver Dan Stevenson and injured five student passengers. Investigators said they could find no mechanical cause for the crash and concluded the driver failed to make a “sweeping left-hand curve.”
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What caused December’s UCSC bus crash? After six months, records made public so far show little
Six months after the on-campus bus crash that led to the death of driver Dan Stevenson, UC Santa Cruz officials say they’re still investigating the cause. Through a public records request, Lookout obtained maintenance records that shed little light on what might have happened.
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UCSC students raise campus transit concerns in three-hour town hall
In the wake of a fatal bus crash and a damaging California Highway Patrol report that called UC Santa Cruz transit operations “an imminent threat to public safety,” students shared their frustrations at a town hall meeting Friday.
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CHP says UC Santa Cruz transit service ‘imminent danger to public safety’ after shuttle inspections
The California Highway Patrol classified UC Santa Cruz’s transit service as an “imminent danger to public safety” after conducting inspections in the wake of December’s bus crash on campus. UCSC officials say they’re making improvements.
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Students deserve a better transportation system – regardless of what caused the fatal December bus crash
Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin, who sits on the Regional Transportation Commission and the Santa Cruz Metro board of directors, weighs in on the problems of buses at UC Santa Cruz and the sad death of UCSC bus driver Dan Stevenson. Rotkin, who teaches a course at UCSC through Merrill College, says students deserve better service for the $171 quarterly fees they pay. He thinks a merger with Metro is necessary, but wonders how the transit agency will manage such a complicated deal, given CEO Michael Tree’s imminent departure.
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UCSC students say campus bus inspections after Dec. 12 crash cause overcrowding, delays
UC Santa Cruz students say they’ve experienced longer wait times for buses and more overcrowded buses since the campus removed buses for inspections after a crash last month. Officials say they’re still investigating the cause of the Dec. 12 crash.
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‘He was always really giving’: Family, coworkers remember UCSC bus driver Dan Stevenson as smart and caring
More than a month after the Dec. 12 bus crash on the UC Santa Cruz campus, family members and coworkers of Dan Stevenson, who died Dec. 29 from injuries sustained in the crash, remembered him as a caring person who loved a good laugh and said they are still reeling from the accident.
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A month after UCSC bus crash, officials still investigating the cause
UC Santa Cruz officials say they’re still investigating the cause of a Dec. 12 bus crash that led to the death of the driver on campus.