A commercial bus driver who failed to tell his medical examiner about episodes of dizziness and fainting has been ordered out of the driver’s seat after his medical condition nearly caused a bus filled with passengers to crash on an interstate highway.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’sFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Terence W. Slowther was driving a bus carrying the U.S. Coast Guard Academy men’s hockey team on Feb. 9, 2014, when he experienced a medical episode on Interstate 95 in Connecticut and the vehicle started swerving erratically at a high rate of speed.