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THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE INTERESTING, ITS FROM THE STATE OF MAIN TRANSPORTING 171.001 PUPILS PER DAY - School Year 2001 – 2002. only 6 injured & zero killed TRAINING:
OPERATIONS SAFETY:
NOTE: MAINE SCHOOL BUS REGULATIONS REQUIRE THAT ALL STUDENTS RIDING ON SCHOOL BUSES RECEIVE TRAINING IN SAFE RIDING PRACTICES AND EVACUATION TWICE DURING EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/05/2132154/two-killed-40-hurt-in-wreck.html Starting next month, brand new yellow buses will be pulling up to every
Wichita school bus stop.First Student, the largest bus company in the nation,
is starting its contract with Wichita schools by bringing in a fleet of 624 new vehicles
and drivers excited to operate them.
"It's overwhelming to look out on the lot — look at the brand new buses," Teresa Unger, a bus-driver trainer, said
The chances of school buses improving in the UK are nil, take a look at most of the old buses used.
Just look at the bus your child travels on & judge for yourself
SOME ODDS & ENDS FROM THE USA YOU MIGHT FIND THIS OF INTEREST. IT SHOWS THE USA SIDE OF THINGS MANY OF THE SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED BY DRIVER ERROR, YES SOMETIMES DRINK, HARD TO ACCEPT & HARDER TO BELIEVE, MOST ARE BECAUSE OTHER VEHICLES RUN INTO THEM. THEY ARE VERY BIG & BRIGHT YELLOW, YET OTHER DRIVERS MISS SEEING THEM, I COULD FILL PAGES WITH ACCIDENTS IN THE USA, THEY HAPPEN ON A DAILY BASIS, BUT VERY FEW PUPILS ARE KILLED OR INJURED- BECAUSE THE BUS IS THE RIGHT FOR THE JOB BUT READ ON Every year, there are at least 8.8 billion school bus trips taking students on a trip in the USA. There are more than 440,000 school buses on the road, transporting over 24 million kids to school and home and other related activities. In the course of any given day, there are bound to be accidents involving school buses. In fact, the accident statistics show that roughly 26 kids die every year in school bus accidents, OR are hurt while getting off the bus or hurt as passengers.
Even though school bus accident rates are not that high, crashes like this are extremely upsetting for everyone. The latest news in the industry is the possible advent of seat belts. School buses have been in operation for ages without seat belts, and in addition, the design of buses has not changed since 1977.
School buses are designed in every aspect for student safety in accidents.
The padding on the seats are designed to cushion a blow from sudden stop accidents. The high back seats are designed to keep children in the seat area should an accident occur. The height and frame of the bus are designed to keep the major portion of a collision impact away from the students and to protect the large gas tank from impact to prevent fire. There are many escape areas to exit the bus from in various types of occurrences. The drivers are specially trained and hold special licenses and endorsements to provide the best drivers possible for safety. Everything about school buses is geared towards the safety of the students and practice and training are constants. School buses are purchased or leased by some school districts, while other school districts engage the service of school bus contractors to perform this function.
Approximately 40% of school districts in the United States use contractors
The color, which has come to be frequently called simply "school bus yellow",
was selected because black lettering on that specific hue was easiest to see in the semi-darkness of early morning and late afternoon.
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More enforcement of traffic laws near school buses sought
MONTGOMERY - The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday the lack of seat belts in a school bus that crashed in Huntsville in 2006, killing four students, can be used in a lawsuit against the bus manufacturer.
Police say nine students were taken to the Wyoming Medical Center for examination after a car struck the front of the school bus they were
Arkansas Boy Falls Out of School Bus, Dies
CHARLESTON -- Drivers will face harsher penalties for passing stopped school buses under legislation signed into law
LITTLE ROCK — An 8-year-old special needs child is in critical condition after he opened the emergency door of a Little Rock School District bus
A Knox County school bus driver who was arrested for DUI smelled strongly of alcohol and was slurring his words
A pickup truck rear-ended an Elk Grove Unified School District school bus in Sacramento County early Thursday
Truck driver killed hitting school bus
A car rear-ended a school bus Wednesday and reportedly caught fire, but both drivers and all
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http:// School bus bill moves out of committee
March 12, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
BRYAN CHAMBERS
The Herald-Dispatch
CHARLESTON -- A bill that strengthens penalties for motorists who fail to stop when a school bus is loading or unloading children is on track for passage in the West Virginia Legislature.
School Bus Seatbelts
Monday's school bus wreck in Gadsden County is renewing questions about seatbelts on buses.
The student who died was thrown through the bus' windshield. And the bus was not equipped with the safety devices. School officials throughout the region say they're continuing to equip buses with seatbelts, but it's been a long, slow process. Kansas City, Kan., police investigate the site where a 9-year-old girl was struck
and killed by a school bus this Thursday
THE driver whose car slammed into a school bus near Neepawa Wednesday morning
amid heavy fog has died.
http://isurfhopkinsco.com/local-news/5478-how-safe-are-your-kids-on-the-school-bus.html The School Bus Information Council has provided statistics on school bus safety revealing that school bus accidents are much less likely to occur than any other type of transportation.
For every 100 million miles travelled passenger car travel results in 0.94 deaths.
Air travel results in 0.06 deaths. Passenger trains, even though there are very few still used, results in 0.04 deaths. School buses, however, only has 0.01 deaths per 100 million miles..
Once again we see the mistruths given by D of T & other organisations in the UK, who continue to claim that in North America etc, school children's deaths are common place.
http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100303/wpg_bus_crashes_ Updated: Wed Mar. 03 2010 18:12:45
Two school buses were involved in separate crashes Wednesday morning, say police.
A move to keep children safe getting on and off school buses in West Virginia just passed a major hurdle in the state legislature
Traffic accidents account for over 42,000 deaths every single year in the United States.
On average, only 10 of those deaths occur on school buses and 25 percent of those deaths are bus drivers, not children. That means that somewhere between seven and
eight children die in school bus accidents each year
http://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/article/20100209/UPDATES01/100210001 We sympathize with parents who must make special arrangements for their children when schools are cancelled because of inclement weather.
But we support school administrators unequivocally in their policy on cancelling classes. Throughout the Northern Panhandle and East Ohio, that philosophy is simple: Don't take chances with the safety of children
The owners of a bus that lost its wheels with 80 high school students on board this week had already been urged to improve safety procedures NOW THAT IS SCARY!!
Police investigate a school bus accident
Police Investigate Hamilton County School Bus Confrontation
Oregon State Police Department is continuing its investigation into an early Saturday morning crash involving a Bandon School District school bus that was
The driver of a truck was killed Wednesday afternoon in a collision with a school bus between Smithton and Freeburg, St. Clair County sheriff's Sgt. Alan
These USA yellow school buses can cope with this, due to their safety features.
Could ours? Not a chance
Motorists who drive by a school bus when it's stopped with its red lights flashing may find themselves digging deep into their wallets to pay a ticket.
Today, police launch a safety campaign dubbed Operation Adopt-a-Bus, where officers in unmarked cruisers will follow a school bus to catch any motorists who pass a stopped school bus with flashing lights. The fine for the first offense is $460.
'Nathan's Law' may become a reality
JONES COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - "Nathan's Law" is one step closer to passage in the
legislature.
The senate has passed the bill, which would impose tougher penalties on drivers who
illegally pass stopped school buses.
It's named for Nathan Key, the 5-year-old Jones County boy who was struck and killed by a passing car when he got off a school bus one day last December.
Monday, 18 January 2010 06:53In the last 18 months, 20 drivers travelling New Canaan streets have been on the receiving end of a $460 fine for passing a stopped school bus.
In collaboration with New Canaan Public Schools, police officers are launching an awareness campaign, Operation Safe School Bus, to target those violators.
The program, which promotes a zero tolerance policy, includes assigning officers to ride on school buses so they can spot violations, sending officers in unmarked cars to follow bus routes and working closely with the schools and bus drivers to identify and prosecute motorists caught violating the law, promotes a zero tolerance policy for violations.
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Hartford Courant
The crash prompted the grieving families to launch a campaign for safer bus travel for. Across the country, school bus accidents can be the impetus .
New York was the first state in the country to pass a seat-belt law, followed by New Jersey, California, Florida, Texas and Louisiana.
New York's law requires all buses manufactured after July 1, 1987, to have seat belts, but it does not mandate that students use them. Whether to require seat belt usage is left to local school districts students Harford Sheriff's Office Receives Grant Targeting School Bus ...
By Dagger News Service
Over 34000 Harford County students ride a bus to and from school each day. This grant enhances the Sheriff's Office enforcement efforts of the state law requiring motorists to stop their vehicles when they approach a school bus with its
5-Year-Old Girl Left on School Bus in Brooklyn
Updated: Monday, 04 Jan 2010, 6:58 PM EST
Published : Monday, 04 Jan 2010, 6:58 PM EST By CHRISTINE PERSICHETTE
MYFOXNY.COM - Iman Mirza is happy now, but the little girl had a traumatic morning.
The 5-year-old girl, who is disabled and can't speak, was left on this school bus for over an hour in the frigid cold.
Chaos on board drunken school bus ride
As Thompson went out of control, kids take control
Updated: Monday, 04 Jan 2010, 11:34 PM EST
Published : Monday, 04 Jan 2010, 10:25 PM EST ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - She was drunk behind the wheel with more than three dozen kids aboard her school bus. Now she's going to spend a lot of weekends in jail.
An Orange County school bus driver convicted of molesting and taking pornographic photographs of young girls was sentenced today to 151 years to life in prison, authorities said. Terry Lee Shields, 55, of Buena Park, was convicted earlier this month on 15 felony counts, including kidnapping, forcible lewd acts on a minor child and using a minor for sex acts, according to the Orange County.
NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL A PRISON SENTENCE , 151 YEARS, What would he of got in this country
For some 23 million kids nationwide, the school day begins and ends with a trip on a school bus. Unfortunately, children are injured or killed in school bus incidents every year.
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A 65-year-old bus driver at the wheel of a school bus that killed an Aldine High School student went before a judge Monday.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://wjz.com/local/drunk.driving.comments.2.1393553.html&ct=ga&cd
My spleen was ruptured and needed emergency surgery (twice) and my mother and friends were also injured, though not as severe. Luckily no one was killed
KENT — A car and school bus collided at the intersection of routes 7 and 341 Wednesday afternoon, and while there were students on the bus, there were no injuries, police said.
Hurried girlfriend sped past school bus and knocked child to ground, cops allege
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The school bus stop sign was extended, its lights were flashing, and children were streaming out onto Bay Street — but all of that didn’t stop a Connecticut woman from speeding past to meet her boyfriend in Rosebank a few blocks away yesterday afternoon, police said
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_357220513.html
School bus, vehicle crash in Londonderry LONDONDERRY — A school bus transporting children and another vehicle crashed yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Lawson Farm Road and Misty Lane, police said.
No one was injured in the 3:15 p.m. accident, which occurred when the rear of the bus hit the front of the other vehicle, according to Londonderry police Lt. Christopher Gandia.
According to recent data, school bus transportation remains the single most utilized mode of transportation to and from school for the nation’s K-12 students.
A survey of state directors of pupil transportation services that is published in the upcoming 2010 STN Buyer’s Guide shows that student ridership of the yellow bus remains at about 24 million students one-way each school day
PANAMA CITY BEACH — For the second year in a row, a Bay District Schools student died while waiting for a bus, and school officials have responded by examining an overhaul of the bus system.
Coun Arrowsmith said: “There have been accidents here but fortunately no fatalities. Drivers shouldn’t speed anyway but here, with cars parked either side, it’s a real problem.
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Passing a stopped school bus is against the law. A school bus driver came to me and told me that officers are now looking out for those who decide it is OK ...
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Montgomery County (web | news) officials are investigating a school bus accident in Silver Spring Tuesday morning. It happened in the 8300 block of Grubb Road in front of Rock Creek Forest Elementary School about 8:42 a.m.
A father was dropping his 6-year-old son off at school when a loaded school bus ran over a curb behind the car. Woman Killed By School Bus On LES
Police are investigating after a woman was killed Tuesday after being hit by a school bus in Lower Manhattan.
School bus collides with car in Phoenix
Associated Press - January 6, 2010 2:04 AM ET
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say three teenagers were taken to a Phoenix-area hospital after a bus carrying 49 high school students collided with a car.
Drunk School Bus Driver Takes 37 Kids on Wild, Dangerous Ride
NEW YORK --- More than 37 kids, some crying and all fearing for their safety, were put into terrible danger when a drunk school bus driver took them on a wild ride last May. Now 56-year-old Martha Thompson, who had a .15 blood alcohol while driving a bus for Alfred-Almond school district in Allegany County, will spend 90 days in jail and serve six months under house arrest
JACKSON - Lawmakers have a bill before them that would increase the buffer zone around school buses and impose harsher penalties on violators.
State Sen. Chris McDaniel of Jones County has introduced a bill that calls for major penalties against motorists that illegally pass school buses and tighter restrictions for school bus drivers. JACKSON, MS (WDAM) - The parents of a Jones County child killed when the driver attempted to pass a parked school bus appeared in Jackson Monday. They want tougher penalties for those who pass stopped school buses to become law.
A bill moving through the legislature this year may become Nathan's Law, named for Nathan Key, a 5-year-old boy struck and killed as he crossed from a school bus to his home on Houston Road on Dec. 11, 2009
(NECN/WTNH) - There was a funeral today for a Connecticut teenager killed in a school bus accident over the weekend.
Update: Teen Killed in School Bus Crash Identified
A teenager is dead after a car she was riding in ran a stop sign and was hit by a school bus north of Greeley.
TRAFFIC MATTERS: Clearing up some confusion about passing school buses.
I have received some questions regarding passing school buses, so I thought I would take some time to share this important information with you.
The No. 1 concern of parents is the safety of their children. The law regarding the passing of school buses is designed to ensure that children who are getting on or off the bus do not get hurt.
IN the USA School buses are designed in every aspect for student safety in accidents.
The padding on the seats are designed to cushion a blow from sudden stop accidents.
The high back seats are designed to keep children in the seat area should an accident occur.
The height and frame of the bus are designed to keep the major portion of a collision impact away from the students and to protect the large diesel tank from impact to prevent fire.
There are many escape areas to exit the bus from in various types of occurrences.
The drivers are specially trained and hold special licenses and endorsements to provide the best drivers possible for safety.
Everything about school buses is geared towards the safety of the students and practice and training are constants.
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Bus drivers are recording license plate numbers and reporting offenders to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP will then mail a two-page warning letter, which can cost an upwards of $500.