Arkansas Bus Crash - Update

From a commercialappeal.com report:

The driver of the bus that crashed on Interstate 55 early Saturday and killed 14 had less than half a second to react when his bus began to swerve, officials said Thursday.

Driver Hubert Walters, 67, drove the 39-foot bus off the road near Marion, Ark., after more than eight hours of night driving, and investigators have been piecing his last seconds together to learn why.

The Walters Charter and Tours bus owned by the driver's brother, Roosevelt Walters, had problems, including a cracked frame that held the motor in place and a roof skin placed over an existing roof, a feature that added up to 700 pounds to the top of the bus.

It appears that my original thoughts on the accident may be wrong. Far from driver fatigue, evidence now seems to indicate the accident was caused because the bus was in questionable mechanical and structural condition.