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 or younger. This fact sheet includes 10 years of data, from 2004 to 2013. School-transportation-related crash information is presented in the following order. * Overview * Age Group * Time of Day * Occupant Fatalities * Impact Point and Crash Type * Vehicle Manoeuvre * Person Type From 2004 to 2013 there were 340,039 fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Of those, 1,214 (0.4%) were classified as school-transportation-related. From 2004 to 2013, there were 1,344 people killed in school-transportation-related crashes–an average of 134 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 in the crashes (Table 5). From 2004 to 2013, there were 116 school-age pedestrians (18 or younger) who died in school-transportation-related crashes. Sixty-two percent were struck by school buses, 5 percent by vehicles functioning as school buses, and 33 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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