NJ Transit/Coach USA does not act to curb death of Deshon Johnson.

NJ Transit bus, the state’s mass transit agency has not taken aggressive steps to lower the rate of fatalities along its lines with the goal of reducing them to zero. Montclair residence Deshon Johnson life was stolen when 61 year old Coach USA  driver driving a NJ Transit bus jumped the curb on Bay and Broad in Bloomfield killing a 22  year old Afro-American college student and devoted son. This remarkable young man was going to college to pursue a degree in Business Finance. He also had a music career that was soaring to the top. Deshon was waiting at the bus stop to get on the 709 bus. As the bus driver speed around the corner not stopping for Deshon it jumped the curb then dragging him 50 to 100 feet to his death.

There are record detail shows repeating personal trauma bus fatality killing pedestrian in an alarming rate. The bus company needs to reduce pedestrian injuries and death. There needs to be some action taken by NJ Transit drivers and who they are subcontractor there buses to, such as Coach USA. NJ Transit needs to focus their attention reducing fatality not only on train also with buses and drivers.

New Jersey Transit enforcing law with the incident of the two boy’s deaths involving New Jersey Transit train jumps the curb http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_Transit_acts_to_curb_track_deaths.html Why not

enforce law with Deshon Johnson incident when Coach USA bus driver driving a NJ Transit bus jumps the curb? Should trains jumping the curb have more precedence then the bus? Or should two young boys death have more precedence then a 22 year old young man? Both incidents a person life was taken whether it was a train or bus jumping the curb. Each family members are mourning over the lost of their child.

There should be a public safety campaign that focuses on seven areas — the public, enforcing bus drivers aggressive driving laws, and penalty for jump curb where pedestrian stands, $20, 000 fine, reexamining bus traveling on bad intersection and rerouting bus where there is construction taken place. There should be a camera video install so the bus drivers can see what is on the side and back of them.  If NJ Transit can enforce the public safety campaign that focuses on three areas — educating the public, enforcing trespass laws, and reexamining the rail network to identify whether improvements could be made to the engineering on trains they can do the same with bus drivers.

Naomi Johnson cries every night and day for her son. “With all our efforts, I’d like to get to zero fatalities, I know it will not bring Deshon back and countless others who lost their life at least it will save future pedestrian lives. If there was a tough law about imprisonment on aggressive recklessness bus drivers, high fines or camera that talks warning the drivers about impossible fatality getting ready to occur Deshon will still be here with his mother. New Jersey Transit, Coach USA  nor the driver reached out to Deshon's mother offering some kind of financial support since Deshon's was helping his disable mother. They took away her income by killing her only child. They left her struggling on her own.