Courthouse News Service: SEATTLE (CN) - The tour company whose bus wreck killed nine people and injured 39 in a Dec. 30 crash in Oregon forced their weary driver to work "far in excess of the maximum hours" permitted by law, an injured woman claims in court.
Eun Sook Uhm and her husband sued Mi Joo Tour & Travel; Edward Kang and his wife, the married couple who own it; and the driver, in Federal Court.
Uhm claims that Kang and Mi Joo forced their driver, Haeng-Kyu Hwang, "to drive far in excess of the maximum hours of service permitted by the FMCSRs [Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations]."
The crash came on the last day of a 9-day tour, on an icy road on Interstate 84 near Pendleton, Ore., when the bus hit a guardrail and plunged down an embankment.
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