A school-transportation-related crash is a crash that 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. In this fact sheet school-age children are defined as children 18 and younger. This fact sheet includes 10 years of data, from 2005 to 2014. Information on school-transportation-related crashes is presented as follows. * Overview * Person Type * Age Group * School Age Fatalities by Time of Day * School Bus Occupant Fatalities by Impact Point and Crash Type * School Bus Occupant Fatalities * Vehicle Manoeuvre and Pedestrian Fatalities. From 2005 to 2014 there were 331,730 fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Of those crashes, 1,191 (0.4%) were classified as school-transportation-related. From 2005 to 2014, there were 1,332 people killed in school-transportation-related crashes–an average of 133 fatalities per year. Occupants of school transportation vehicles accounted for 8 percent of the fatalities, and non-occupants (pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.) accounted for 21 percent of the fatalities. Most (71%) of the people who lost their lives in these crashes were occupants of other vehicles involved (Table 5). From 2005 to 2014, there were 111 school-age pedestrians 18 and younger who died in school-transportation-related crashes. Sixty-one percent were struck by school buses, 3 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 36 percent by other vehicles (passenger cars, light trucks and vans, large trucks, and motorcycles, etc.) involved in the crashes. (Author/publisher)
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