About Us - Safety & Value - Bus Travel Safety Facts of Thomas Built Buses
School bus transportation is:
- 172 times safer than passenger cars
- 8 times safer than passenger trains
- 8 times safer than air travel
- 4 times safer than transit coaches
- 4 times safer than intercity buses
(Figures are for overall fatalities per passenger mile)
School Bus Travel |
Other Modes of Travel |
| Each school day, 25 million children are transported to and from school a distance of 23 million miles on 450,000 school buses. | Each school day, 25 million children use various other means to get to and from school each day. |
| Less than 10 school bus passenger fatalities occur each year. | 448 fatalities occur in passenger vehicles to or from school with a teenage driver. 169 fatalities occur in passenger vehicles to or from school with an adult driver. |
| Less than 17 pedestrian fatalities occur during school bus stops each year | 177 pedestrian and bicycle rider fatalities occur to or from school. |
| Total = 27 fatalities per year. | Total = 794 fatalities per year. |
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Sources: National Safety Council, National Academy of Sciences, FARS and GES data from 1991-1999, School Transportation News and The National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation |
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