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 1994 there have been about 413,169 fatal traffic crashes. Of those, 0.32 percent (1,341) were classified as school transportation-related. Since 1994, 1,479 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 (70%) were occupants of other vehicles involved. Nonoccupants (pedestrians, pedalcyclists, etc.) accounted for 22 percent of the deaths, and occupants of school transportation vehicles accounted for 8 percent. Since 1994, 182 school-age pedestrians (younger than 19 years old) have died in school transportation-related crashes. Nearly two-thirds (64%) were killed by school buses, 5 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 31 percent by other vehicles involved in the crashes. Nearly one-half (49%) 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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