Motor coach business operated by church shut down by feds after crash
A South Carolina church has been ordered out of the commercial transportation business, after an investigation into a fatal accident revealed numerous safety violations.
In the accident that brought the Sandy River Baptist Church to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) attention, a motor coach commercially operated by the church experienced a front wheel failure that caused the vehicle to swerve and strike a median guardrail and a concrete bridge support near Rockingham, N.C. The motor coach had been transporting a junior college football team from Rock Hill, S.C. to Raeford, N.C.; five passengers were killed and 39 injured in the September 2016 crash.