Despite a tragedy in which a Metro Transit bus struck and killed a pedestrian on June 22, Madison?s bus system has an improving safety record amid rising ridership, city records show. Metro had 72 crashes in which the bus driver was at least partially at fault in 2010, the lowest sum in at least seven years.
….In the first five months of 2011, Metro has had 36 crashes. The sum doesn’t include the June 22 accident when Maureen E. Grant, 58, of New Glarus, was struck by a bus on University Avenue near UW-Madison.