Since the first days of school, there have been some problems with yellow school buses. There have been instances of some buses coming way too early, other buses coming way too late, and accidents happening on buses. I personally think that’s unfair.
To start off, I'm going to tell you about how some school buses don't have seatbelts. On March 29, 2006, Ashley Brown, age 16, and Alicia Bonura, age 18, sadly passed away. They were on a bus that was carrying their team (West Brook High School Soccer team) to the playoffs in Humble. That was until their bus overturned near Devers, Texas.
Steve Forman’s daughter, Allison, age 17, along with 21 other team members, were injured. Allison was ejected through the window, and her arm was pinned beneath the bus for an hour. She had to undergo four operations to reconstruct her arm. Steve Forman said that the hardest thing he had to tell his daughter was that two of her friends had died.
Even after all of this happened, some school buses still don’t have seatbelts.
Why? The main reason for why some buses don't have seatbelts is the cost (the cost of adding seatbelts is $8k-15k) and, apparently, seatbelts take up a lot of space. This shows that some buses don’t contain seatbelts, which are one of the most common safety measures, for the most ridiculous reasons.
On July 21, 2022, there was another overturn due to the bus driver attempting to take an exit ramp.
How did the driver's attempt to take an exit ramp cause an overturn? How many were injured? Is everyone okay? The bus was carrying 37 people (all bus drivers), and was heading northbound on the highway, when the bus driver attempted to take an exit ramp and ended up overturning. This was on Hutchinson River Parkway in the New York City borough of the Bronx at around 5:55 am. After the dust settled, 34 had minor injuries, and 3 had major injuries.
This proves that some bus drivers most likely aren't watching their speed, something was wrong with the bus or drivers are being reckless.
Listen to this: An 11 year old boy was able to obtain the keys to a bus and crashed the bus into other cars while doing a hit-and-run from the police. He then proceeded to crash the bus into a tree.
How did an 11 year old get keys to the bus? How can/did an 11 year old drive a bus? How did an 11 year old run away from the police? What happened to the people in the cars? On October 12th, 2020, the police got a call about an 11 year old driving a bus at around 10:45 a.m. Multiple police officers followed the kid and bus as the kid allegedly taunted and flipped officers off and struck three other vehicles. At around 11:45, the kid crashed the bus into a tree, and the boy left unscathed, but one of the drivers that the boy hit did have minor injuries. The police don’t know how he got access to the bus keys yet.
The child was charged with theft of vehicle, aggravated flight, three counts of damage to vehicle, and one count of aggravated assault.
Though this doesn’t seem It’s basically saying how some bus drivers aren't being too responsible with their bus keys.
A bus driver and bus attendant picked up two kids really early and didn’t drop them off at the school. Another bus driver had to drop them off. While the kids were on the bus no one was able to contact the bus driver or bus monitor.
What happened to the kids while they were on the bus? What happened to the bus driver and attendant? Why weren’t they able to contact them while they were on the bus? Are the parents suing the bus company? On October 12th, 2022, a bus driver picked up two kids at around 5:00-5:30 a.m. The kids weren't at the school at 8:00 so the teachers and the parents started getting worried. They got even more worried when they couldn’t get in contact with the bus driver or the bus attendant. The bus monitor was on the phone with the parents guiding them the whole way as they were going through that.
They got the location of the bus and sent another bus driver and bus assistant to go and pick up the kids. When they got to the destination the bus driver and bus monitor were nowhere to be seen, so they got the kids and brought them to the school. When they arrived there were ambulances, detectives, and police officers waiting for them.
But here's the thing, they probably will never find out the real truth because it was a school for the deaf, and the kids on the bus haven't developed how to speak that well, so they can’t explain what really happened. Though, I'm not entirely sure if the parents are suing the company but they most likely are suing them.
How is this related to yellow school bus problems? This is saying that some bus drivers are basically taking their job as a joke, since they just abandoned 2 kids in an unknown place to them, and knowing kids, they could have left the bus, leading to them getting lost, which can end in so many different ways. Or, say they couldn’t track the bus, say what would have happened to the kids? They would have been starving, which could lead to them unaliving.