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School Bus Collides With Semi-Truck in Fiery Crash
In March of 2024, a small school bus was transporting preschool-age children when it suddenly crossed into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with a tractor-trailer semi truck. The collision caused the school bus to erupt in flames. Both the driver of the semi-truck and the school bus were killed, along with all 3 preschoolers riding on the bus. Police were looking into why the bus might have swerved into oncoming traffic. (ABC World News, March 11, 2024)

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In Millas, an area of southern France, a school bus collided with a regional train on Thursday, December 14, 2017, killing 4 children and critically injuring 11 other passengers on the bus.

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In a Baltimore school bus crash that killed 6 adults, the driver had a history of seizures and had been involved in at leas 12 crashed in the previous 5 years.¹

References:
1.USA Today editorial, “Chattanooga crash exposes gaps in school bus safety” Dec 8, 2016 page 7A


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