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Traffic safety facts 2000 : school buses
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2001
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TRIS Online Accession Number:824619
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NTL Classification:NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Bus Transportation;NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety;NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics;
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Abstract:A school bus-related crash is a crash which involves, either directly or indirectly, a school bus-type vehicle, or a vehicle functioning as a school bus, transporting children to or from school or school-related activities. Since 1990, 1,450 people have died in school bus-related crashes - an average of 132 fatalities per year. Most of the people who lost their lives in those crashes (67 percent) were occupants of other vehicles involved. Nonoccupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) accounted for 25 percent of the deaths, and school bus occupants accounted for 9 percent (drivers 2 percent, passengers 6 percent). Since 1990, 224 school-age pedestrians (less than 19 years old) have died in school bus-related crashes. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) were killed by school buses, 5 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 30 percent by other vehicles involved in the crashes. More than half (51 percent) of all school-age pedestrians killed in school bus-related crashes were between the ages of 5 and 7. 1 Figure, 5 Tables.
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