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Six deaths a year? Add seatbelts and you'd have more deaths than that from communicable disease. Lets have all these kids put their hands on exactly the same su

Six deaths a year? Add seatbelts and you'd have more deaths than that from communicable disease. Lets have all these kids put their hands on exactly the same surface.

frossie 16y ago
Six deaths a year? I went looking to verify that statistic thinking it can't be right, but I didn't find what I expected. According to the source below: "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" In other words it seems your child is twice as likely to be run over by its own schoolbus rather than to die inside it in a collision! http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statistics.html http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statis...
- ygd 16y ago
  The actual quote was: About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.
gscott 16y ago
Brain dead or maimed completely doesn't count as dead. So the number should be higher. A lot of school buses have short low seats with metal frames, those seats should be replaced with the high back 4 inch foam seats.
duffbeer703 16y ago
Seriously, a big issue that the article missed is the obvious safety issue associated with having a bunch of kids on a bus with metal latches attached to 3 ft long strips of canvas: kids beating the crap out of each other. I grew up in the country town with a 1 hour bus ride to school, with kids ranging from K-12. The superintendant personally cut the belts out of our bus after a fight resulted in a broken hand inflicted by a swinging belt and a broken window.

Six deaths a year? Add seatbelts and you'd have more deaths than that from communicable disease. Lets have all these kids put their hands on exactly the same surface.

frossie 16y ago

Six deaths a year? I went looking to verify that statistic thinking it can't be right, but I didn't find what I expected. According to the source below: "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" In other words it seems your child is twice as likely to be run over by its own schoolbus rather than to die inside it in a collision! http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statistics.html http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statis...

ygd 16y ago
The actual quote was: About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.

gscott 16y ago

Brain dead or maimed completely doesn't count as dead. So the number should be higher. A lot of school buses have short low seats with metal frames, those seats should be replaced with the high back 4 inch foam seats.

duffbeer703 16y ago

Seriously, a big issue that the article missed is the obvious safety issue associated with having a bunch of kids on a bus with metal latches attached to 3 ft long strips of canvas: kids beating the crap out of each other. I grew up in the country town with a 1 hour bus ride to school, with kids ranging from K-12. The superintendant personally cut the belts out of our bus after a fight resulted in a broken hand inflicted by a swinging belt and a broken window.