In 2016, a Massachusetts student was dragged and then run over by Tendzin Parsons’ bus. Parsons is sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to negligent motor vehicle homicide.
Read More →The state medical examiner finds that the driver and the student on board both died from “smoke and soot inhalation and thermal injuries” in the Dec. 12 school bus fire.
Read More →Authorities file preliminary charges of manslaughter and involuntary injury against the driver. Six students were killed in the crash.
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New information indicates that the driver in the November 2016 Chattanooga crash took a phone call at the time, prosecutors say.
Read More →At issue in the investigation is whether the safety barriers at the railroad crossing were open or closed when the bus moved onto the tracks.
Read More →The school bus driver and one student were the only occupants. Authorities say it appears that the driver had backed into a ditch when the fire broke out.
Read More →A 5-year-old girl dies and more than 20 students are injured when their bus runs off the road and hits a tree, authorities say.
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The agency reports that a total of 39,339 people died in accidents in all modes of transportation in 2016, up from 37,309 in 2015.
Read More →Federal statistics show that more students outside the school bus are killed by the bus itself than by other vehicles.
Read More →Kerry Mullins of South Carolina brings her daughter to her bus stop, walks into the road to talk to the bus driver, and is hit by a motorist.
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