School Bus Crash Statistics

In the U.S. each year thousands of fatalities occur which involve school buss -- people are killed and hundreds of thousands more are injured as the result of school bus accidents. This is critical because school buses are the single largest form of transportation in the U.S.

Since 1990, 1,450 people have died in school bus accidents and of these, sixty-seven percent were in other cars and vehicles and another 25% were pedestrians or cyclists. What these school bus accident statistics tell us is that about twenty seven children are killed in school bus accidents annually, seven of which are passengers in the bus and the other twenty are pedestrians.

Further, most school children are killed in the afternoon when the kids are getting off the bus. As you may glean from these statistics, generally, school buses safe forms of transportation for our kids. However, accidents and injuries do occur and are sometime tragic and unavoidable.

If your child has been harmed in a school bus accident, let us assist you in determining if your are entitled to compensation for damages. Speak to an Atlanta, Georgia attorney who can appraise you of your legal options in a school bus collision case.

The McAleer Law Firm, PC, will be there to fight for justice. E-mail or call us immediately.