[AppyPappy]

Safety #'s should include injuries as well. Otherwise, it's not a safety record. It's a fatality record.

[rogers21774]

Fair enough. The latest figures I can find are for 1996 when 13,000 children were injured in school bus related accidents. Seems high until you consider that on average 152,000 children are injured in traffic accidents each year during normal school travel.

Furthermore, on average 600 children are killed each year traveling too or from school by means other than a school bus. The most deadly method of school transportation is in a passenger vehicle driven by another teenager, followed by bicycle, and then walking.

When you consider that almost 60% of the nations public school students are transported by school bus, the safety record is even more impressive.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to the school bus transportation industry other than the fact that my children ride on a big yellow bus, to and from school each day.