School Bus Statistics

School buses are the biggest type of mass transit in the United States, providing almost nine million student trips every year. In comparison, this is twice as many passenger trips than are provided by transit buses across the nation. Almost half a million school buses transport 24 million students to and from school, or school related activities, each school day. Since 1990, 407,000 fatal traffic accidents have occurred in the United States. School bus related accidents account for one third of one percent of these deaths.

National school bus accident statistics define a school bus-related crash as those that directly or indirectly involve a school bus-type vehicle, a vehicle functioning as a school bus by transporting students to or from school or related activities.

According to official school bus accident statistics, 1,450 people have been killed in school bus related accidents since 1990. Of these fatal accident victims, 67 percent were the occupants of other vehicles involved in the school bus accident, 25 percent were pedestrians or bicyclists, and nine percent were passengers in school bus-type vehicles.

These school bus accident statistics translate into the following figure: Approximately 27 school aged children die in school bus accidents every year. Seven of these are passengers in a school bus and twenty are pedestrians. Of these twenty pedestrians, fourteen are killed by school buses and the other six are killed by other vehicles involved in a school bus accident. More than one half of all pedestrian fatalities involve a child between the ages of five and seven.

School bus accident statistics show that most school aged pedestrians are killed in school bus accidents between the hours of three and four in the afternoon. The hour between seven and eight o''clock in the morning is also a time where children are most often the victim of school bus accidents.

According to school bus accident statistics almost one half (45 percent) of all school bus accidents involve impacts to the front end of a school bus. Other common crash types include right side impacts, non-collisions, and left side impacts, rear impacts, and top impacts in descending order.

As a general rule, school buses are a fairly safe method of transportation for school aged children, as school bus accident statistics reveal. In 2003, not a single child was killed in a school bus related crash in 45 states. Often times when school children are injured or killed in a school bus accident the circumstances were severe and at times unavoidable.

If your child was injured or killed in a school bus accident, you may be eligible to seek compensation for your loss. You may wish to speak to an attorney who can advise you of your legal rights and options in a school bus accident case.

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