Local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. A look now at the federal role in improving School Bus Safety. The house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on highways and transit heard from brenda sue fulton, among others. Today is a timely hearing with children out of school. To be done toeds keep them safe. Im interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. Thatulton it is also true children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. More than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to the still dunes, to examine why these fatalities occur. Two these students, to examine why these totalitys occur, and what can be done why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. There are school buses in my own district. Oft take other modes transport
and joins us with the latest. reporter: it appears everyone will survive this bizarre accident but there was troubling behaviour after the crash. the victim who was knocked out of her bed. says the first person she encountered outside her door way not only failed to render assistance but asked her to not contact authorities. at 3:35 a.m., a car slammed hard into a ground level apartment window, at the chestnut ridge complex on river dale road in prince georges county. look a boom. sounded like an earthquake. you know it shakes. reporter: the building shook? yeah, building shook. reporter: apartment resident 37-year-old michelle sawa was injured when the car came flying not only into her bedroom but her bed prompting her to roll out of the bed on to the floor. the whole car pushed the bed all the way in like that. right over her head like you can actually see the tires. she pull her hands up or look she could see the tire right over her head. reporter: where did
media the slip. mary cheh was ready and willing to take credit for trying to fix the system. this bill would create the office of government accountability within its board of elections and ethics to be headed by a mayor-appointed director, approved by the council. but at a time when mayor vincent gray is under attack for hiring and firing a mayoral candidate who bashed fenty on the campaign trail, after kwame brown had to give back luxury suv s renting on the government dime and when harry thomas faces charges, some government watch dogs, including lawmakers, say the bill is not enough. so you have a five-member board, three of whom are either the mayor or appointed by the mayor. it is creating another skillary for politicians to white watch themselves from corruption or scandal. reporter: there were calls today to give some agencies that exist more teeth, like the oches of the attorney general, the office of the inspector general, the office of campaign finance, m