I went looking to verify that statistic thinking it can't be right, but I didn't find what I expected. According to the source below:
"Approximately 27 school aged children die in school bus accidents every year. Seven of these are passengers in a school bus and twenty are pedestrians. Of these twenty pedestrians, fourteen are killed by school buses"
In other words it seems your child is twice as likely to be run over by its own schoolbus rather than to die inside it in a collision!
About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.
I went looking to verify that statistic thinking it can't be right, but I didn't find what I expected. According to the source below:
"Approximately 27 school aged children die in school bus accidents every year. Seven of these are passengers in a school bus and twenty are pedestrians. Of these twenty pedestrians, fourteen are killed by school buses"
In other words it seems your child is twice as likely to be run over by its own schoolbus rather than to die inside it in a collision!
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statis...