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Safetyby StaffMarch 24, 2015

Girl helps classmates escape crashed bus

A Pennsylvania student got her classmates to safely exit the bus after it drove off the road and slammed into a home. No students were seriously injured, but the bus driver was taken to the hospital.

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Safetyby StaffMarch 24, 2015

Boy fatally struck by school bus

A 10-year-old Kentucky student cleared the bus after being dropped off at his stop but somehow went into the ditch line, officials said.

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Safetyby Nicole SchlosserMarch 24, 2015

Minnesota students design school bus safety computer game

Four seventh and eighth graders teamed up to create Bus Whiz to teach young students about school bus safety in a fun way.

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Safetyby Thomas McMahonMarch 23, 2015

Bill targets school bus stops near sex offenders

The legislation would require Illinois school districts to notify parents of any school bus stops within 500 feet of a sex offender’s residence.

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Alternative Fuelsby Thomas McMahonMarch 23, 2015

EPA awards $8 million for clean diesel projects

The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act grants will fund such projects as retrofitting and replacing older school buses.

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Managementby StaffMarch 23, 2015

92 Blue Bird propane buses included in STA’s new Colorado contract

The manufacturer’s school buses will power the largest “green fleet” of school vehicles in Colorado, according to Blue Bird and STA.

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Safetyby StaffMarch 19, 2015

Study: 1,500 stop-arm camera tickets issued in D.C. area

The finding is from a AAA Mid-Atlantic review of five jurisdictions in the Washington, D.C., area that have deployed school bus stop-arm cameras since 2013.

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Maintenanceby StaffMarch 19, 2015

Accuride extends automatic slack adjuster warranty

The supplier increased the warranty on Gunite standard and Gunite 2000 automatic slack adjusters for school buses from three years/300,000 miles to four years/400,000 miles.

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Safetyby StaffMarch 19, 2015

Bus driver, student honored for thwarting allergy attack

An Agawam (Mass.) High School bus driver and student were named “Hometown Heroes” by the Western Massachusetts Red Cross. They helped a student who was having an allergy attack, injecting her with an EpiPen and calling for an ambulance.

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Safetyby StaffMarch 19, 2015

Boy in intensive care after being hit by school bus

Connor Wright, 7, was struck in an unmarked crosswalk while walking to school with his older brother in Nampa, Idaho. He suffered a fractured skull, several broken bones and is in a coma.

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