Ken Kolosh, manager of statistics for NSC, explained how the agency is lim- ited in collectinge data. “The non-fatal data is a sampling of the crashes, so it’s not 100 percent [accurate],” he not- ed, adding that NHTSA gives specific weights to crashes. “And then [NHT- SA researchers] use some sampling weights to create national estimates. And that system works really well, most of the time.” Where Kolosh said the sampling tends to fall flat is with really rare events, which includes school bus crashes. “School buses are very safe, and the
events are really rare compared to your everyday traffic collisions that are being sampled,” Kolosh continued. “Because of that, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the estimates and that’s seen in the injury facts. We don’t even have estimates for school bus passenger injuries for 2021.
It’s just too small to estimate.” According to the data NSC does
have available, it estimates that from 2012-2021 about 40,000 school bus passengers were injured, with only about 600 injuries reported in 2020 and less than 500 in 2021 (due in part to COVID-19 and the lack of school buses and vehicles in general on the road). Additionally, the agency provides an
interactive chart on its website, where participants can find cited school bus related deaths for 2021. Data is search- able by factors such as state, month, day of week, and time of day. The data gets as granular with information on the age and sex of the individual. Kolosh noted that if NHTSA is on par
with its previous years, and not this past year when data was released late, he ex- cepts the 2022 FARS report to come out sometime in November or December.
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51,100 school bus–related injuries were treated in U.S emergency rooms from 2001 to 2003. Motor vehicle crashes were the most frequent cause (42.3 percent) for all age groups.
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