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.

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.

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.