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About 20.5 million elementary and secondary school-aged kids in the United States ride school buses to and from school each day. And when something goes wrong — a crash, a reckless driver — it ...
Some parents were worried after a school bus crash that killed two people, but school buses are typically the safest for students. 'Horrified and heartbroken': Hays school bus crash raises safety ...
The exact cause of the bus crash remains unknown, but the National Transportation Safety Board said they are investigating the incident and will visit the crash scene on Wednesday.
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 ...
Riley Ramey, a junior at Tusky Valley Middle-High School, interacts with Yikity Yak, a therapy dog acquired after the bus crash in 2023. Ramey was on the bus when the crash occurred.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board sent a five-member team to the site of the crash. The team found that the driver of the Military Distributors tractor-trailer had, during a momentary lapse in alertness, crossed the center line into the path of the school bus. The driver was also found to have suffered from epilepsy.
Earlier, the Random Lake School District shared a message to its Facebook page informing the community that "Bus 17 was involved in an accident." "Students were injured and are receiving medical ...