The bus, carrying Farmingdale High School students to a marching band camp in Pennsylvania, may have suffered a faulty front tire before it rolled over into a 50-foot ravine off the side of Interstate 84. Two adult passengers died in the accident.
The annual contest is sponsored by the National Association for Pupil Transportation, National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services, National School Transportation Association, and school bus manufacturers Blue Bird, IC Bus, and Thomas Built Buses.
School Bus Fleet surveyed school transportation professionals from Colorado to New York to get a sense of what the most serious concerns are when it comes to school bus safety.
Two U.S. senators - Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois - are putting forward the School Bus Safety Act, which would include federal requirements for seat belts on school buses.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification is evaluated by several parameters to determine quality expectations and overall quality culture.