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Typical accidents almost always end up in blame games. Once the parties in question recover from the initial shock of being in the accident, the first thing they do is, try and decide who caused the accident in the first place. And whenever it comes to pinning the ones responsible for having caused the accident, chaos reigns supreme and volleys of abuses are hurled at each other by the parties.




Why is Claiming Compensation in Bus Accidents Complicated?

Typical accidents almost always end up in blame games. Once the parties in question recover from the initial shock of being in the accident, the first thing they do is, try and decide who caused the accident in the first place. And whenever it comes to pinning the ones responsible for having caused the accident, chaos reigns supreme and volleys of abuses are hurled at each other by the parties. Many a times in the not-so-typical accidents too there is confusion so as to who indeed is at the root cause of the accident. Accidents involving buses are mostly the not-so-typical type of accidents, wherein it becomes difficult to pinpoint who caused the accident. This happens largely because unlike a car, a bus is not a privately owned vehicle. It is owned by either an organization or the government, it is a large vehicle, it has its own set of safety regulations and every state has its own different regulation for buses, and it ferries many different passengers, who also, rather ironically, could be the cause of the accident. Speaking of the cause of accidents involving buses, the first person that comes to everyone's minds is the bus driver. Most of the times the driver who must assume responsibility for the accident, but it does not mean that it is always his / her fault.

Besides the driver there are many parties involved in the functioning of buses who could be responsible for the accident of the bus at every level. Interesting, isn't it? For instance, since buses are owned by companies it could be the company's fault at the planning level. It may be recruiting inexperienced drivers, it may be overworking them for more profits, or it may have failed to provide them with sufficient training for their jobs, it may not be paying adequate attention to the maintenance of the buses -- whether or not the tires, brakes, etc were being replaced as and when required. To make the blame game more interesting one could easily add a maintenance company -- recruited by the company that owns the bus -- to maintain the bus, in the picture. Now what if it was this company which failed to live up to its promise to maintain the buses well and caused the accident?

Talking about other parties which could probably play a role in the event of a bus accident one can't miss the passengers in the bus. Many times the passengers in the bus can get noisy or hyper-active and distract the driver, causing an accident. How they distract the driver could be anything from a fight for the window seat to them just being angry and acting rough with the driver himself. Obviously once one has covered the factors inside the bus, one has to go out to see the other drivers on the road, who have also been found to play an active role in causing bus accidents many a times. 

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