School Bus Safety - National Transportation Safety Board
网页School buses use a unique technology called compartmentalization—a passive occupant protection system to protect children in crash. School bus seats are made with an energy-absorbing steel inner structure and high, padded seat backs, and are secured to the school bus floor. Students are protected within the seating compartment much like eggs ...
NTSB Reiterates Call for Lap and Shoulder Seatbelts in All School …
网页2022年11月3日 · The NTSB is renewing its 2018 recommendation that states require passenger lap and shoulder belts on new, large school buses as well as its call to require systems that prevent lane departure on heavy vehicles, first issued in 2010 and updated in 2021. All recommendations remain open.
Selective Issues in School Bus Transportation Safety: Crashes in ...
网页Every day, nearly 600,000 buses carry more than 25 million students to and from school and activities. Children are safer traveling in school buses than in any other vehicle. Although school buses are extremely safe, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) continues to investigate school bus crashes in which fatalities and injuries occur.
网页2019年7月25日 · school buses report additional improvements beyond occupant protection reduced , including driver distraction and improved student behavior. However, to date, there is no federal requirement for large school buses to be equipped with lap/shoulder belts, and most states do not require them. 5 NTSB. Bus Crashworthiness. NTSB/SIR-99/04.
HWY21FH001.aspx - National Transportation Safety Board
网页On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, about 3:45 p.m. eastern daylight time, a 2018 Freightliner truck, configured as a service vehicle for a local utility company, was traveling north on State Route 58 (SR-58) in Decatur, Meigs County, Tennessee, at an estimated speed of about 52 mph. At the same time, a 2013 Thomas Built transit-style school bus was ...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy on NHTSA Final Rule on Bus …
网页1/14/2022. WASHINGTON (January 14, 2022) – National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy Friday praised NHTSA's final rule aimed at protecting occupants during motorcoach and large bus rollovers but said more needs to be done to provide the same level of safety for lighter-weight buses. “NHTSA's action is a positive step ...
网页conducted three crash tests on prestandard (manufactured before April 1977) large school buses.3 A variety of dummy types and sizes were used in the tests, as well as a number of different belts, restraint bars, and air bags. The researchers concluded that the high seatback (28 inches) was the most important safety feature for large school buses,
网页Abstract: In November 2016, the NTSB began the investigation of two crashes involving school buses. Each crash was initiated when the driver lost control of the bus. In the November 1 crash in Baltimore, Maryland, the driver was epileptic and suffered a seizure. In the November 21 crash in Chattanooga,
School bus accident in Chattanooga, TN - National Transportation …
网页On Monday, November 21, 2016, about 3:20 p.m. (eastern daylighttime), a 2008 Thomas Built Buses 84-passenger school bus was traveling south in the 300 block of Talley Road, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when it departed the roadway, rolled onto its right side, and struck a tree The school bus, operated by Durham School Services, under contract to the …
Senate Transportation Committee The Illinois General Assembly …
网页2024年3月5日 · Children are safer traveling in school buses than in any other vehicle. School buses are designed with a passive form of occupant protection, termed “compartmentalization,” which only requires the passenger to sit properly in the seat facing forward and functions by forming a compartment around the bus occupant.