Safety Information: School Bus Facts

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California School Bus Transportation Facts:

• Number of buses operating in California: 26,291
• Miles traveled by school buses annually: 367,893,624

Total Number of fatalities (California) per 100 million passenger miles:

School Buses - An Unequaled Safety Record:

Fatal crashes involving occupants are rare events. Each year, some 440,000 public school buses travel more than 4.3 billion miles, transporting 24 million children to and from schools and school-related activities (an estimated 10 billion student rides annually.)

In contrast, the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that every year more than 800 school-aged children are killed as passengers in other motor vehicles during "normal school transportation hours." Most of these deaths could have been prevented if children rode in school buses.

Whether driving themselves, traveling with parents, bicycling or walking to school, risk of injury or fatal accident to a child increases 100 times compared to those children on school buses. Of the nearly 7,500 student deaths from 1991-1999, over 99% occurred when children were not safely inside a school bus, but rather involved in another method of transportation.