"There is no engineering there are no improvements there is nothing you can do to stop a 100 mph car careening out of control," says Erin Breen, part of RTC's Bus Stop Bench Advisory Committee and head of UNLV's Safe Community Partnership.  

Breen's involvement with the RTC began with her push to get ballards or barriers placed in front of bus stops. She says she realized later those are still deadly when hit.

"The best way to describe it, is like shrapnel going straight towards the people at the bus stops," she says of the debris when barriers are hit. 

Breen also explains placing a bus stop too far from an intersection can promote jaywalking.

Raised sidewalks or platforms prove only efficient in head-on crashes.  "But that's not how bus crashes happen, says Breen."They happen along [the side] and they come up on the sidewalk."

Breen says there are some good examples to look at: the stop on Maryland & Flamingo has plenty of wheelchair access and a bus shoulder lane. But making all stops mirror that one, would take a lot of costly changes.

She says the best way to prevent bus stop accidents is to get the whole valley to slow down.

Breen has often talked to local government officials to consider reducing speed limits across town.