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Stay current on the practices, equipment, training, and research helping protect students, drivers, and other road users. Here, we cover topics such as illegal passing, loading and unloading, driver safety, student behavior, crash prevention, security, and more.

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News•by Staff•March 28, 2019

School Bus Driver Avoids Hitting Squirrels, Crashes Into Tree, House

The South Carolina driver loses control of the bus, which runs off the side of the road, overcorrects, and the bus spins around before hitting the tree and stopping against the house.

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News•by Sadiah Thompson •March 27, 2019

Student Dies After Hit-And-Run Crash Near School Bus Stop

The 8-year-old girl is sitting on the edge of the roadway when a pickup truck makes a sharp turn, hits her, and then continues driving. She is taken to the hospital where she later dies as a result of her injuries.

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News•by Nicole Schlosser•March 26, 2019

School Bus Safety Bill Advances With Cut, Weakened Provisions

Indiana lawmakers cut a provision to let schools buy stop-arm cameras with a share of the fines from illegal passers and change a provision that would have made a license suspension mandatory.

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News•by Staff•March 25, 2019

Driver Finds Student With Loaded Gun on School Bus

The Georgia bus driver finds a Ruger .38 caliber pistol in the student's backpack and holds onto the student's belongings until authorities arrive at the scene.

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News•by Staff•March 25, 2019

USSC Group Acquires Child Check-Mate

The acquisition will expand and strengthen the bus seating and fire suppression supplier’s safety solution options for commercial transportation markets.

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News•by Staff•March 22, 2019

Report: Indiana School Bus Driver Speeding Before Crash With Garbage Truck

The bus driver was driving too fast and experienced a glare from the sun before the collision, according to the crash report. Twenty-one people were injured.

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News•by Staff•March 22, 2019

Student Transportation of America Charity Event Raises Nearly $10K for Cancer Support

Student Transportation of America raises funds for the STI Cares Foundation, the school bus company’s philanthropic arm, and for a Pennsylvania cancer support charity.

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News•by Nicole Schlosser•March 21, 2019

Student Credited for Quick Actions in Italian School Bus Hijacking

After a school bus driver in Italy allegedly hijacks a bus and demands students’ phones, the boy manages to hide and call a parent, who alerts authorities. Passengers suffer minor injuries.

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News•by Sadiah Thompson •March 20, 2019

Student Hit By Vehicle While Boarding School Bus

The New York student is getting on the bus when a vehicle drives around the passenger side of the bus and hits her, causing her to land on the hood of the vehicle.

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News•by Nicole Schlosser•March 20, 2019

School Bus Driver Saves Toddler From Freezing Temperatures

Lyle Silbernagle of Minnesota spots the boy alone at a street corner wearing only a diaper. He wraps the boy in his coat, brings him into the van and turns on the heat, and calls police. 

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