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Explore a compilation of school bus accidents resulting in fatalities and injuries, highlighting the importance of school bus safety.
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March 29, 2010 First responders work the scene in the 4800 block of Long Drive in Liberty Twp., in which Sodany "April" Phann, 15, was struck and killed by a Lakota bus. April, who attended Lakota East High, would have turned 16 on Thursday. The Enquirer/Carrie Cochran
March 29, 2010 Sareth Phann, left, uncle of Sodany "April" Phann, 15, touches the ground where April was killed. April, who attended Lakota East High, was fatally struck by a Lakota school bus in the 4800 block of Long Drive in Liberty Twp. She would've turned 16 on April 1. The Enquirer/Carrie Cochran
March 31, 2010. 12:45 PM. Richmond, CA Two teens dead in Richmond Parkway collision. Killed by school bus. Are they school bus or MV fatalities and part of the 800? Were they on the way home from school or to another destination? Berkeley High is closed this week for spring break.
KILGORE, TX May 26, 2010 a school bus carrying eight students flipped on its side, wet roads caused the driver to lose control and the bus to flip.No injuries reported. All the students were wearing seatbelts.
Zanesville, Ohio, June 2, 2010, 6 year old fatally injured Bus off road into gully
Chesapeake Police Officers Alan Farnham, right, and Justin Mathews look over the over turned bus on Jarvis Road, in Ches. Va. The bus over turned around 8:20 a.m., said schools spokesman Tom Cupitt. (L. Todd Spencer | The Virginian-Pilot) June 16, 2010
Chuma Awanna said he was sitting on the right side of the bus toward the front, paging through a girl's yearbook, when he felt the bus swerve. "Next, we're sitting up like this," he said, holding his right hand higher than his left. "And next I hear the bus driver say, 'Oh, shoot!' " Then, suddenly, Chuma was airborne. His head bumped the roof and he found himself atop a pile of students. Some were screaming, he said, including a friend who was hollering for someone to get off of him.
July 29, 2010 MILFORD, NY - Two summer campers and a bus driver were rushed to the hospital after a school bus rolled over just after 11a.m. in the Town of Milford Thursday.
Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 near Gray Summit, MO, 2 dead, dozens hurt
Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 near Gray Summit, MO, 2 dead, dozens hurt
Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 near Gray Summit, MO, 2 dead, dozens hurt
The school buses were carrying high school band students to an amusement park. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Dozens injured when school bus overturns on I-295 off-ramp in New Castle Delaware – November 3, 2010
November 9, 2010 - 11 hurt when school bus crashes, rolls over in El Paso County
Part Barre, LA December 3, 2010. Had just begun to move after picking up children, at a home on a highway, lights still flashing struck by a tractor-trailer. 1 child fatal, 1 critical.mnny injured.
December 21, 2010, A school bus with about 15 children on board rolls over in Sauk County, Wisconcin
January 20, 2011, Wayne County, NY, (near Syracuse) Bus-Snow Plow
FEB. 8, 2011: 3 KILLED MANY INJURED A HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN A SCHOOL BUS AND AN 18-WHEELER IN CALHOUN COUNTY, MISS.
Feb. 21, 2011 Pasadena, CA Korean church bus returning home from a weekend retreat, in Twin Peaks, Calif., after colliding with another vehicleand killing one person.
Feb. 21, 2011, Lake Hamilton, FL. Truck ran a red light. No way bus could have avoided the crash. Children just as vulnerable. No matter whose fault, what happens to them after impact is the same.
ASH, NC March 8, 2011 2 adults, 2 children in car that hit a school bus. were killed in a head-on crash in northern Brunswick County.
April 1, 2911 Bolivar County, Miss.. One child fatality 4 children air lifted, 4 more ambulanced to hospital. Tractor trailer crash in fog.
Clarence, NY May 18, 2011 Officers say no one was seriously injured thanks to everyone wearing their seat belts.Chief Belden said, "If they didn't have their seat belts on in the vehicle and it rolled like that, they would have been thrown all over that bus. They were all buckled in , they stayed right in their seats and they came out relatively all unscathed."
Davidson County, NC May 24, 2011-Hannah Doss and her little brother, Connor, got on the bus right before the wreck. "I was at the window and everybody was laying on top of me. Some people had to help us out because we were pinned in the bus," Doss described. 38 on bus 31 sent to hospitals.
Guess what? This is not a school bus accident! Friday, June 17, 2011, near Devon, Mont. Bus carrying 40, returning from a church camp flipped on a rural highway in Montana, injuring several students. (AP Photo/Shelby Promoter/Chris Muller)
June 26, 2011, Chambersburg, Pa. Pennsylvania State Police said the camp bus from Cumberland Valley Christian School in Chambersburg
Pasco County, FL Aug. 23, 2011.Sgt. Steve Gaskins, spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said it appears Lucas and England wore their seat belts and the baby was properly secured in a car seat.