The School Bus Safety Act of 2025, introduced before the April crash in Chester County, seeks to mandate enhanced safety ...

School buses are nothing fancy underneath, ... Obviously, the bus needs the lengthy frame rails to support the three-and-a-half-ton body, but all that steel serves double duty for crash protection.

School buses are often seen as an essential part of childhood, but what many don't realize is that these iconic yellow vehicles are among the safest on the road in America. In fact, school buses ...

The proposal was prompted by a May 2018 school bus crash that claimed the lives of a Paramus fifth grader and a teacher. ... knocking the bus body off its frame and injuring every person on board.

And while buses have changed a lot on the inside—those side-facing benches became front-facing, for one thing—the exterior of the American school bus has remained much the same since 1939.

The e-bus industry got its start in the U.S. in 2014, when a handful of California school districts began buying electric buses to meet the state’s emissions requirements, according to a report ...

Though school bus inspections are required annually, ... by Michigan State Police in many cases did not happen every 365 days and safety deficiencies increased as that time frame was exceeded.