School bus crashes in the spotlight at NTSB meeting
School bus safety will the focus of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) meeting next month to consider the Special Investigation Report based on the investigation of two 2016 school bus crashes.
On Nov. 1st in Baltimore, Maryland, a city school bus crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a commuter bus, killing six people. On Nov. 21, a school bus in Chattanooga, Tennessee traveling on a narrow, winding road rolled over onto its passenger side and became wrapped around a tree. Five of the 37 children on the bus died at the scene of the crash; a sixth child died two days later. Twenty-three children were hospitalized with injuries, six of them in critical condition.