Celebrity Justice
Crash Victims to 'Dr. Phil' Show -- Give Us a Brake

Dr. PhilFive "Dr. Phil" fans are now suing the very show they once loved -- after a road trip to catch a taping of the program allegedly turned into the worst experience of their lives.

Flashback to December 2007, when a bus chartered by the "Dr. Phil" show -- which was carting members of a Ventura County mothers group to see the show -- crashed while en route, injuring 17 people.

According to the lawsuit, filed earlier this month in L.A. County Superior Court, the brakes on the bus "failed and lost power, making the bus unable to stop" ... causing it to collide with "another vehicle, two concrete curbs, an iron fence and two trees."

Now, five women on board that bus are suing Dr. Phil's production company, claiming the show "negligently hired" the faulty bus to pick them up.

The five women are asking for unspecified damages against Dr. Phil's production company -- Peteski Productions -- along with Bus America, Inc. and the bus driver.



Tags: accident, bus america, bus crash, BusAmerica, BusCrash, dr. phil, Dr.Phil, lawsuit, peteski productions, PeteskiProductions, phil mcgraw, PhilMcgraw

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1. First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:59AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Simone

2. Complicated story...

Posted at 1:02AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Simone

3. Third bitches.........now roll a blunt fo doktoh fill

Posted at 1:14AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Iwanttoholdyourbigtits

4. Tiny, please, stop messing around with my name!!!!!!! People who always post here know that it is not my style. Get a life and write what you want signing your own name on it, bitch!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:27AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Simone

5. Umm... I shouldn't comment on this but I cannot let my sister-in-law be slandered by people on this site who do not know what actually happened. My S-I-L and her friends in this "mother's club" were invited to see Dr Phil's show tape by Dr. Phil. HE and his people arranged the charter bus service. These mothers and some of their children boarded this bus believing it to be safe. Then the driver was unable to stop the bus, it flipped, hit other vehicles and the women and children including the drivers own child were seriously injured. My S-I-L now and forever has a major back injury. She is in sever pain daily and Dr. Phil's people who failed to even check out the bus didn't pay for the hospital stay or anything else. There is negligence, major negligence and the issue of punitive damages as well.

Posted at 1:50AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Ms. B

6. sure sue his ass!!! he had everything to do with that. Just like like George Bush called in Katrina. Get a Life HELLO

Posted at 3:01AM on Sep 29th 2009 by shea middleton

7. Simone #6:
Simply posting on this trash site belies any integrity you think you may have. Don't worry about it. No one else does.

Posted at 1:57AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Large Marge

8. If I was driving a busload of cackling morons from the Dr Phil audience, I would do it deliberately. Wow, he drove into "another vehicle, two concrete curbs, an iron fence and two trees", and still couldn't finish the fat oafs off.

Good effort though. Well done Mr Bus Driver.


Posted at 2:01AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Allen Ridak

9. What a bunch o' shiz... I'll bet my salary on the demograph of this group, and the POS lawyer behind this! I guess Dr Phil should've went and inspected the bus personally...I can hear 'em now "dat mo fo dota Phil gonna be payin' my ass...uummm hummm" ...ridiculous.

Posted at 2:10AM on Sep 29th 2009 by kenfu

10. they got to get their kid's college funds somehow

Posted at 2:03AM on Sep 29th 2009 by not a fan

11. I am surprised that TMZ has not put up any more michael jackson stories.

Posted at 2:02AM on Sep 29th 2009 by anonymous

12. Large Marge, your comment was very sensible. People who post in this type of site is idiot in some way, because they are losing their time talking about someone else - stupid celebs - instead of take care of their own lives. I assume mea culpa for it. Hahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahhaahaha.

Posted at 2:08AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Simone

13. THESE PEOPLE JUST WANT MONEY LOL !!!!!LAMO

Posted at 2:15AM on Sep 29th 2009 by BETTY

14. This is precisely the frivolous lawsuits that obama needs to make stop. Let me guess, grandma joleene got a wild idea to sue because the bus was connected to some tv show. up yours grandma, eat it, you pigs. you make people sick with your get rich quick schemes. are you gonna sue me now because i made fun of you money grubbing pieces of shizz with a T on the end?

Posted at 2:22AM on Sep 29th 2009 by fart bloomies

15. Oh, I sure Dr. Phil &/or his production company specifically ordered a bus that wasn't in tip top shape~~~give me a "brake",
ooooops, I used the wrong word!!!!!!!!!! "These people" are gonna attempt to get $$$ for their children to go to college,
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, plezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! What a joke!!!!!!

Posted at 2:39AM on Sep 29th 2009 by Lizzie

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