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  SCHOOL BUS/PUPIL ACCIDENTS

 

A WOMAN has died following a crash between a school bus and car in Rugby

 

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/90273/tragedy-avoided-after-school-bus-hits-bridge.aspx
 
Tragedy avoided after school bus hits bridge
Published date: 01 July 2010
 
FORTY children had a remarkable escape when their school bus crashed into a railway bridge over a main road yesterday afternoon.
 
SADLY ONCE AGAIN 24 th May
Three killed in school bus crash in Cumbria,sadly Two teenagers have died
 and five have been badly injured in a crash involving a school bus on the A66 near Keswick in Cumbria, the ambulance service said
 
  7 Jun 2010 Twelve pupils hurt in bus accident (UKPA)
Twelve schoolchildren have been taken to hospital after their coach ended up on a roundabout as they headed on a seaside day-trip. Eight pupils were taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and four went to the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate to have minor injuries treated.
We are constantly told these are rare events, it appears not
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_
Two dead and five in hospital after school bus crash
A man and a woman died after a collision between a school coach and a car in Warwickshire.
Once again a school bus, tragically again deaths involved

 

 

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Pupils rescued after minibus skid -27/2/10 A minibus full of children was left hanging over a 15ft gully after skidding out of control in icy conditions. The taxi-bus had been heading west on Lord Byron's Walk, in Seaham – towards Seaton – when it slid backwards as its driver tried to negotiate an icy bank.
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12/1/10
THIS IN FACT WAS ALMOST A SERIOUS INCIDENT, THE BUS
WAS IN THE DITCH
A SCHOOL bus got stuck in roadside snow as it took pupils to aRochford school.
The double decker was taking students to King Edmund School, in Vaughan Close, when it got stuck on Barrow Hall Road shortly before 8am.
No-one was injured and pupils were collected by parents.
A second school bus service was sent out to collect them at 9.30am.
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Head pays tribute to boy, 15, killed in accident ... He was a year 10 pupil at nearby Whitchurch High School
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EMERGENCY services raced to Prestonpans on Tuesday after an eight-year-old girl was struck by a car near to St Gabriel's RC Primary School.
The youngster, who is in a serious but stable condition at the Royal Sick Kids' Hospital in Edinburgh, was hit by a Vauxhall Corsa as she emerged from behind a parked vehicle in Preston Road at 3.20pm.
Nine firefighters, from Musselburgh and Tranent, were called to the scene to release the injured girl who was trapped beneath the car's front bumper
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Pupils of two Somerset primary schools have been given florescent jackets after a coroner urged for them to be introduced in the wake of a teenager’s death.
Elliott Davies, 13, was killed when a car skidded on ice near his home in the village of Wedmore, near Cheddar, as he waited for the school bus.
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WE ARE REPEATLY TOLD THAT SCHOOL PUPILS INJURIES & BUS ACCIDENTS
DONT HAPPEN THAT OFTEN. I WILL LET YOU BE THE JUDGE OF THAT AS YOU GO THROUGH THE SITE
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EMERGENCY crews have dashed out to a double-decker fire in Sevenoaks.
Police were called just after 4.15pm today to Riverhill.
The bus was carrying schoolchildren from the Tonbridge area towards the town centre. No one was injured during the incident and no other vehicles were involved.
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Pupils are already all too aware of dangers on the road
as schoolmate Ashley Whiteway was killed at the age
of six last year when he was hit by a bus on
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Pupil recalls moment tractor and school bus collided
9:00pm Friday 20th November 2009
BRAVE schoolgirl Robyn George has said she will
continue to sit in the same seat on her school bus
despite being injured in the horrific crash earlier this week.
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Children injured as bus crashes
A double-decker bus carrying children on a school
trip has had its roof torn off after crashing into a bridge
in Leicester.Ten nine and 10-year-olds were taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary
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We hear on a daily basis that school buses are safe,
they could however me made safer if every local
authority adopted the same safety measures.
That way you will see just how common they are, & in some circumstances were ONLY MINUTES away from picking up or dropping of pupils.
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Two wheels shear off school bus 3/3/10
An investigation has been launched into how two wheels sheared off a bus which was transporting nine special needs children to a ski lesson in Midlothian.
Another close call, very lucky, how come its both wheels??
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From 1981 to 2006. that is 4 years ago 21.826 children were killed, injured or seriously injured in Scotland alone.
 
 
These all happened leaving school transport, that is a horrendous figure, not forgetting that many of the seriously injured suffered brain damage to varying degrees.
All child road casualties are for the same period are 105.329, we are killing & injuring our children
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EMERGENCY crews have dashed out to a double-decker
fire in Sevenoaks.Police were called just after 4.15pm today to Riverhill.The bus was carrying schoolchildren from the Tonbridge area towards the town centre.
No one was injured during the incident and no other vehicles were involved.
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Pupils are already all too aware of dangers on the road as schoolmate Ashley Whiteway was killed at the age of six last year when he was hit by a bus on
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Pupil recalls moment tractor and school bus collided
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Head's relief after pupils survive school bus crash
8:22am Tuesday 17th November 2009
Headteacher Len Spiers has spoken of his relief that no pupils were seriously injured after a tractor almost tore off the roof of a school bus yesterday evening.
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WE ARE REPEATLY TOLD THAT SCHOOL PUPILS INJURIES & SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENTS DONT HAPPEN THAT OFTEN.
AS YOU READ THROUGH THIS SITE, I WILL ALLOW YOU TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MINDS
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To emphasise the point we will list daily any accident we hear of with a school bus involved.
Mini bus collides with articulated lorry on minor road
near Arbroath
Two people have been seriously injured following a
serious crash between a school bus and an articulated lorry near Arbroath.
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Driver killed in crash with school bus
Another dreadful accident & sadly a death, again a
school bus involved, thankfully empty.
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School bus safety's largely in the hands of those who drive cars
1434010 - School bus in road crash
Four injured in Oldmeldrum pile-up
Published: 10/10/2009
 PILE-UP: The crash on the A947 Aberdeen to Banff
road involved a van, three cars and a bus. 
A GROUP of schoolchildren escaped serious injury after their school bus was involved in a pile-up on a road near Oldmeldrum.
 I am sure I don’t have to explain what would of
happened if the pupils had been getting of the bus. 
It simply once again proves the point, make the school bus visible for what it is
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ISLE OF WIGHT –
There were no serious injuries from a Monday night bus crash involving field hockey team members from King's Fork High School.
Eleven students were transported to three area emergency rooms where they were treated and released, according to a Suffolk Public School official, who said there were a total of 20 students on the bus at the time of the crash.
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ABERDEENSHIRE SCHOOL BUS CRASH -STONEHAVEN
Two people have been taken to hospital after a road crash involving a bus and a car.The bus, which had children on board, and car collided on Slug Road in Stonehaven at about 0730 BST.
There was no suggestion the accident was weather-related
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Children injured as coaches crash on A449 near Worcester
Seventeen people, including 14 children, were injured today in a multi-vehicle collision, an ambulance service said.
The crash, which involved two coaches and a car, happened on the A449 near Worcester at 10.10am.
A WMAS spokesman said: "Two coaches, taking children from Gloucestershire to the West Midlands Safari Park and a car were involved in a collision in the roadworks area of the A449 near Claines Island.
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Published Date: 09 July 2009
Schoolchildren escaped serious injury when the coach they passengers on was in collision with a lorry.
Police, three fire crews and paramedics were called to the scene in Banham Road, Kenninghall at about 3.40pm on Thursday
. 1994
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was thrown through a school bus window to his death yesterday morning when the crowded single-decker collided with an articulated lorry.
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WE SADLY USE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE FACT NOTHING CHANGES
IS IT ANY WONDER WHY WE & OTHER PARENTS GET ANGRY
THIS WAS 1994
Can you imagine what this family has had to endure Sixteen other pupils were injured - one very seriously - in the accident, which happened when the vehicle, with 32 pupils on board, left the narrow B7016 on a sharp bend on its way to Biggar High School, Strathclyde.
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Last night there were renewed calls from motoring organisations and the Labour Party for the fitting of seatbelts in coaches and buses to be made compulsory.
 
THIS WAS SAID IN 1994 WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE  THEN CERTAINLY NO COMPULSORY FITTING OF SEAT BELTS
AS WE SAY , PLENTY PROMISES & NOTHING ELSE OVER THE YEARS
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Man dies and pupils hurt in Kirkcaldy crash.A man has been killed and seven children taken to hospital after three vehicles crashed in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
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 Bus crash in Chelmsford .The driver had to be cut free after becoming trapped by the wreckage following the accident
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 A NEAR-miss involving a runaway bus which narrowly avoided A96 traffic and children walking to schoolas it free-wheeled driverless through a Moray town, has been hailed as an "act of God
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Published: 06/03/2010
A double-decker bus on its way to pick up pupils in Aberdeenshire crashed off the road yesterday.
The Stagecoach Bluebird bus slid off the B999 Aberdeen-Tarves road near Udny Station at 8.10am. The vehicle, which landed on its side, is understood to have been on its way to Tarves to pick up Meldrum Academy pupils at the time.
Once again luck is on the side of pupils.
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BUS CRASH IN BIGGAR
Once again we have a terrible situation, a bus full of children , although  seat belts were  fitted  in this instance, it is uncommon on most school buses.
Of course service buses that carry pupils dont have seat belts at all  & under current legislation never will.
There were Teachers on the bus yet no one it appears insisted the belts were fitted [ were the teachers wearing theirs ?] the result children & possibly staff severely injured.
A  young girl has been tragically killed in this accident .
A young life sadly lost & for no reason except the lack of a seatbelt fitted.
This is shocking & so sad for the familes involved, this should not happen in the year 2010!
Our thoughts are with all the families at this time, an extremely worrying time say the least.
To lose a child is so close to our hearts, its painful in the extreme for all involved.
Once again it proves the fact all buses should in fact have seat belts, but even more so for children, especially on the school run.
Why is  it in some areas children are safer than others, why on earth should this be, many local authorities need to address this situation now.
The fact this was not a normal school run means nothing,its is still children involved, our most precious gift, when will parents realise their kids deserve better safety measures & complain when they are unhappy.
Our petition is still before the Scottish Parliament regarding this & other safety measure.
The other big question is , why on earth was a bus transporting children in this weather, after all the dire warnings of the snow & winds that were to come.
The bus operator has many questions to answer regarding this matter,as do the local authority, surely common sense would have to prevail, the problem being, it rarely does!
Sadly on transport H&S  laws do not apply to children.
We pray for these families & all those injured, it saddens us & also brings back memories we try daily to forget. How do parents begin to even cope with the loss of a child !
IN 1994
Sixteen other pupils were injured - one very seriously - in the accident, which happened when the vehicle, with 32 pupils on board, left the narrow B7016 on a sharp bend on its way to Biggar High School, Strathclyde
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