He noted that starting in 2009, the district implemented lap/shoulder seatbelts across its entire fleet. It was the first public school district in the state to do so. “It was pretty much what I was expected,”
McKeand said of the event. “Buses are built pretty tough, so watching them collided with each other was a little different of an experience.” Three Indiana pupil transportation at-
Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-
istration released an early estimate of traffic fatalities for 2021, projecting that 42,915 people died in motor vehicles crashes last year, a 10.5 percent increase from the year before. While it doesn’t state how many of those crashes included school buses, School Transportation News reported on several fatal school bus crashes throughout last year. In October 2021, a New Jersey school bus driver was killed
after a three-vehicle crash. Then, in November, a 14-year-old student passenger and a 31-year-old school bus driver were killed in a school bus and tractor-trailer crash in Pennsylva- nia. Also in November, a school bus driver for Henderson County Public Schools in North Carolina was killed after the school bus flipped over. Read the article at
stnonline.com/go/cq.
tendees discussed with STN following the crash how there needs to be less talk about implementing lap/shoulder seatbelts and instead the restraints need to be mandated and funded. “We’ve all probably experienced being hit
that hard, they weren’t going that fast, but it shows the integrity of the school bus,” said Ju- dith Dahlstrom, the director of transportation for Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, adding that her district doesn’t have seatbelts on its buses. “Maybe not the moment of the [crash] but certainty the aftermath of it.” Patricia Waites, the assistant transportation director for Hamilton Southeastern Schools,
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