No school bus injuries. The safety defect involves the potential for a temporary loss of braking in some 300,000 trucks and buses, including 40,000 school buses. Importantly, there have been no reported crashes or injuries involving the school buses involved in the recall. Minimal safety risk.
Buses are still extremely safe.
An average of 10 children are killed each year in school buses, and most of these tragedies involve very severe crash circumstances. Information for parents. He argues that we increase the risks to children by unnecessarily taking them out of school buses and letting them get to and from school by a less safe mode of transportation. Copies are available from the home page link of this website.