NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System is estimating an almost 9 percent decrease in fatalities during 2009, which will hopefully be mirrored in school-bus-specific data that will be extrapolated later this year.
The trade show during the National Conference on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers was barely two hours old, and Betsy Shulthess was already counting down the days until she will return next year.
Transportation Collaborative, Inc. (TCI) recently notified NHTSA of two recalls, including buses that fall under the agreement reached last fall to remedy problems with models manufactured by the former U.S. Bus, which TCI purchased in November of 2007.