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On average, five fatalities involve school-age children on a school bus each year; statistically, a school bus is over 70 times safer than riding to school by car. [27] Many fatalities related to school buses are passengers of other vehicles and pedestrians (only 5% are bus occupants). [28]
The school bus involved in the accident was a 71-passenger school bus built by American Transportation Company (which was acquired by Navistar International at the time of the accident), and was owned and operated by School Districts 47 and 155 through a Transportation Joint Agreement. At the time of the accident, 35 students were on board.
The bus involved in the crash was a former school bus, configured with a bus body mated to a medium-duty truck chassis and frame. The 1977 model-year Ford B700 chassis was mated to a Superior school bus body. The vehicle was designed with a capacity of 66 passengers and a driver, including 11 rows of 39-inch wide seats, separated by a 12-inch ...
1955 Spring City School bus-train collision, Spring City, Tennessee; 11 killed plus many injured [161] [162] 1956 Redondo Junction train wreck, Los Angeles, California; 30 killed plus 117 injured. California's deadliest rail disaster (not involving an automobile) was one of the first to have its aftermath broadcast live [163] [164] [165]
A bus carrying school children from Hungary crashed and caught fire on the A4 near Verona a few minutes after midnight, killing 17 people and injuring 25. [ 222 ] January 28 – Madagascar – At least 47 people, including 10 children and a newly-wed couple, were killed when a truck carrying wedding guests swerved off the road and plunged into ...
An eastern Missouri girl was hit and killed by a school bus Thursday, local authorities shared online. The child was a student in the Fort Zumwalt School District in O’Fallon, about 33 miles ...
Previously, 13 bus compound coordinators designed their drivers' routes, and staff at each of the district's 165 schools could add students to existing bus stops — without involving the ...
At Saginaw High School, two students; a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot at during a drive-by shooting. They were leaving a homecoming dance. [46] [47] October 11, 2005: Farmington, Michigan: 0 0 0: At Farmington High School, a 17-year-old male brought a disassembled shotgun to the school.