Another deadly bus crash in our area

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Evolily

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Very sad :( I was reading about it earlier

I think, with these stories, it's important to remember that every month in Mississipi 50-60 or more people die in motor vehicle accidents. These stories are sad, but they are still such a small minority of fatalities. They just get a lot more attention.
 

NicoleCPST

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That is true. In the past year alone we have had nearly 10 young kids injured or killed from being ejected in a crash... and thats just ejections, not including anything else.I think our state has something likea 90-95% mis or non use rate. Its terrible.
 

MommaWhitney

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We have had a few bus crashes/accidents latly in our area. Its scary. I know its said to be safer but I still feel my kids are safer in thier properly used car seats than on a bus. I only let my oldest ride for feild trips and its cause Ive got no other choice. Its ride the bus or dont go. The whole ride I follow the bus and my pulse is elevated for sure.
 

Evolily

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We have had a few bus crashes/accidents latly in our area. Its scary. I know its said to be safer but I still feel my kids are safer in thier properly used car seats than on a bus. I only let my oldest ride for feild trips and its cause Ive got no other choice. Its ride the bus or dont go. The whole ride I follow the bus and my pulse is elevated for sure.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/

In 2009, 2 school bus passengers and 3 school bus drivers died in school bus accidents. 91 people in other vehicles, 1 person on a bicycle, and 21 pedestrians died in school bus related accidents. Riding behind that bus you are likely in much more danger than your child.

Compare that to 33,808 people killed, total, in automobile accidents that year. 1,538 of those people were children, many riding in vehicles to and from school.

Your children are VERY safe in your automobile, safer than most. But, even properly restrained, in the newest/safest car, with the safest driver- it's hard to imagine they would reach the same level of safety provided by a school bus.
 

erikanohelani

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NicoleCPST said:
That is true. In the past year alone we have had nearly 10 young kids injured or killed from being ejected in a crash... and thats just ejections, not including anything else.I think our state has something likea 90-95% mis or non use rate. Its terrible.

It is horrible! I live on the MS coast. I see so many kids riding unsafely on a daily basis. It is just so hard to see.
 

sholoulou

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There is no way I would let my child ride a school bus in my city. We have had children left on a bus (they were sleeping and the driver didnt check) (even in the hot sun), dropped off at the wrong house, one driver arrested for a dwi, released the next morning and drove the bus hours later. Recently, a 6 yr old child's jacket was caught in a door because the driver did not realize another child was getting on the bus. The child was dragged 20 ft and the front tire rolled over him. That is just instances off the top of my head.
Buses might be safer but it also takes a safe driver who is not so much in a hurry that they over look safety.
 

JMacSanDiego

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My son has the option of riding on a school bus to and from his preschool. However on the bus, the kid's carseats are all forward facing. I would rather him stay rear facing for as long as possible. It's not that I don't trust the bus driver, I do. I just don't trust the other motorists on the road. People in San Diego sometimes drive like idiots. My son still has 4 or 5 more inches until his head is the same height as the carseat shell. And he is nowhere near 45 pounds yet (he's in the SK Radian XTSL), so he can still RF. Another thing is that it's so hard to uninstall his carseat (thanks to the LATCH belts) and then reinstall it in my car. I don't want to have to deal with that several times a day, for four days a week (I would buy an extra carseat before I'd deal with that).
 

MommaWhitney

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sholoulou said:
There is no way I would let my child ride a school bus in my city. We have had children left on a bus (they were sleeping and the driver didnt check) (even in the hot sun), dropped off at the wrong house, one driver arrested for a dwi, released the next morning and drove the bus hours later. Recently, a 6 yr old child's jacket was caught in a door because the driver did not realize another child was getting on the bus. The child was dragged 20 ft and the front tire rolled over him. That is just instances off the top of my head.
Buses might be safer but it also takes a safe driver who is not so much in a hurry that they over look safety.

You must be near me. Im in Louisiana and the same stuff happened about an hour from here.
 

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