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Bookmark or Share- School Bus Safety - National Transportation Safety BoardSchool buses use a unique technology called compartmentalization—a passive occupant protection system to protect children in crash. School bus seats are made with an energy-absorbing steel inner structure and high, padded seat backs, and are secured to the school bus floor.
- Fire on Battery Electric Transit Bus - National Transportation Safety BoardOn Saturday, July 23, 2022, at about 3:39 a.m. eastern daylight time, a battery electric transit bus (BETB), owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation and operated by public transit system CTtransit, began emitting smoke while parked inside a CTtransit maintenance facility in Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut.
- School Bus Roadway Departure and OverturnThis information is preliminary and subject to change. Release Date 3 April 2024 On Monday, March 4 , 2024, about 5:50 p.m. eastern standard time, a 2022 IC school bus operated by Calhoun County Schools, Calhoun County, West Virginia, was southbound on West Virginia Route 16 (South Calhoun Highway) transporting students on an activities/after-school route.
- NTSB Reiterates Call for Lap and Shoulder Seatbelts in All School BusesFor additional information on school bus safety, visit the NTSB’s school bus safety page: School Bus Safety (ntsb.gov). To report an incident/accident or if you are a public safety agency, please call 1-844-373-9922 or 202-314-6290 to speak to a Watch Officer at the NTSB Response Operations Center (ROC) in Washington, DC (24/7).
- School Bus Run-Off-Road and Fire - National Transportation Safety BoardWe determined that the probable cause of the fatal school bus run-off-road and fire in Oakland, Iowa, was (1) the driver’s failure to control the bus, backing it into a roadside ditch for reasons that could not be established; and (2) the failure of the Riverside Community School District to provide adequate oversight by allowing a driver to operate a school bus with a known physical ...
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