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 1993 there have been about 410,000 fatal traffic crashes. Of those, 0.33 percent (1,347) were classified as school transportation-related. Since 1993, 1,488 people have died in school transportation-related crashes — an average of 135 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 1993, 191 school-age pedestrians (less than 19 years old) have died in school transportation-related crashes. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) were killed by school buses, 4 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 31 percent by other vehicles involved in the crashes. More than one-half (51 percent) of all school-age pedestrians killed in school transportation-related crashes were between the ages of 5 and 7. (Author/publisher)
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