CONTACT PERSON(S): Bill Schroyer/Charlie Hood April 14, 2003 PHONE: (850) 488-4405 MEMORANDUM TO: District School Superintendents FROM: Wayne V. Pierson SUBJECT: Structural Defects on Certain Carpenter Manufacturing School Buses Recently in Alachua County there was a single-vehicle school bus crash involving a 1991 Carpenter Manufacturing Type D school bus with no children on board. WVP:CFH Attachment cc: School District Transportation Directors Bus on Roof at Crash Scene General Location of Potential Defect (shown on crash bus) Side View at Crash Scene (right side) Light Panel Removed for Inspection Post-crash Interior (right side, welds broken; roof lifted and supported) Cracked Weld (...
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