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The following gives safety facts on School Bus Accidents for 2002:

A school transportation-related crash is a crash which involves, either directly or indirectly, a school bus body vehicle, or a non-school bus functioning as a school bus, transporting children to or from school or school-related activities.

Since 1992, 1,472 people have died in school transportation-related crashes — an average of 134 fatalities per year. Most of the people who lost their lives in those crashes (69 percent) were occupants of other vehicles involved. Nonoccupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) accounted for 23 percent of the deaths, and occupants of school transportation vehicles accounted for 8 percent.

Since 1992, 202 school-age pedestrians (less than 19 years old) have died in school transportation-related crashes. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) were killed by school buses, 5 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 32 percent by other vehicles involved in the crashes. More than one-half (52 percent) of all school-age pedestrians killed in school transportation-related crashes were between the ages of 5 and 7.

On average, 13 school-age pedestrians are killed by school transportation vehicles (school buses and non-school bus vehicles used as school buses) each year, and 6 are killed by other vehicles involved in school bus-related crashes.

More school-age pedestrians are killed in the afternoon than in the morning, with 38 percent of the fatalities occurring in crashes between 3:00 and 4:00 PM.

Between 1992 and 2002, 92 crashes occurred in which at least one occupant of a school transportation vehicle died. More than half of those crashes (53 percent) involved another vehicle. In the 43 single-vehicle crashes, 57 occupants — 9 drivers and 48 passengers — were killed. In the 49 multiple-vehicle crashes, 26 drivers and 35 passengers died. In the 43 single-vehicle crashes, the first harmful events were as follows: striking a fixed object (22 crashes), a person falling from the vehicle (9 crashes), the vehicle overturning (5 crashes), the vehicle colliding with a train (3 crashes), other non-collision (2 crashes), and collision with object not fixed (2 crashes).

In 43 percent of all crashes involving fatalities to occupants of a school transportation, the principal point of impact was the front of the vehicle.

Since 1992, 7 drivers and 15 passengers have died in school bus body vehicles providing transportation for purposes other than school or school-related activities (churches, civic organizations, etc.). In 1987, one such multi-vehicle crash resulted in the deaths of 27 occupants, including the driver.

All facts excerpted from: Traffic Safety Facts 2002 - School Transportation-Related Crashes (DOT HS 809 615), National Center for Statistics and Analysis, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2002/2002busfacts.pdf (visited on 12/17/03).

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