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School Bus Driver Arrested for DUI While Driving Kids

A Walton County School District bus driver was arrested in the middle of her route and later fired for driving while under the influence...

N.Y. Bill Fixes Drug, Alcohol Tests for School Bus Drivers

Legislation updating drug and alcohol testing regulations for the state’s school bus drivers has been passed by both the New York Senate and Assembly...

FMCSA Declares Pa. School Bus Driver Imminent Hazard

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration declared school bus driver Jasmine Smith to be an imminent hazard to public safety,...

Alabama Student Honored for Stopping Drunk School Bus Driver

The Baldwin County Board of Education near Mobile, Alabama, recognized a 16-year-old high school student for convincing his inebriated school bus driver to pull...

Former Police Officer Faces 49 Years in Prison for Fatal School Bus Hit-and-Run

The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, reported that a former law enforcement officer could receive up to 49 years in prison after he pleaded no...

School Bus Driver Arrested with BAC Five Times the Legal Limit

A North Carolina school bus driver was arrested on Wednesday afternoon for DUI with kids on board her bus, reports WLOS.com. The accused, 46-year-old Angell...

Drunk Driver Kills Student and Injures 4 at School Bus Stop, Driver was Former Police Officer

Polk County deputies from Florida arrested a former Mississippi law enforcement officer for five counts of DUI after hitting five students as they were...

Drunk Bus Driver Arrested with 15 Students On Board

A 50-year-old school bus driver in Newberry County, South Carolina was arrested after the Highway Patrol pulled his green and white activity bus over...

Bus Driver Gets Jail for DUI in a School Bus with 40 Students

Joseph Steven Hill, 51, of Philadelphia, entered a plea of “no contest” plea for driving a school bus under the influence Xanax and methadone. He had...

School Bus Experts Debunk Inflammatory CBS Report

A recent CBS News report, which draws attention to a “stunning lack of oversight” of school bus drivers nationwide by describing several recent incidents...

Driver Arrested for Suspected DUI, Admits He Had a ‘Beer With Lunch’

A Colorado bus driver admitted that on top of taking four different flu medications, he had a "beer with lunch" before getting behind the...

There is Nothing Accidental About Proper Risk Management

When a school bus accident occurs, it’s often just that—an unexpected and unintentional course of events leading to some kind of road collision. Other...

Roundup: Audit Finds Districts Overpay for Transportation, Quintet in Bus Fires Investigated for Hate Crimes & More

Pennsylvania’s state auditor has discovered that school districts have spent millions more than they should on busing. Recent examinations by the state auditor discovered...

MADD to Host National Day of Remembrance

Nationwide, 10,000 people are killed by people operating vehicles while intoxicated. Another 290,000 people are injured in impaired-driving crashes. On Dec. 3, Mothers Against...

Roundup: Lies and Scrooges, No More Snow Days and More

A Virginia bus driver who claimed her young daughter suffered terminal cancer to gain sympathy and more than $3,000 in cash and gifts from co-workers...

Carrollton Bus Crash Documentary to Be Used as Lesson for DUI Offenders

Nearly a year after the public premiere of “Impact: After the Crash,” a documentary about the 1988 Carroll County, Kentucky, church bus crash caused by a...

Survey: Parents Want GPS Monitoring of Buses

The results of a new survey by Fleetmatics Group PLC show that parents would like more visibility into their children’s safety aboard the school...

Roundup: Dog Days of Summer, Criminal Background Checks and a Case of Catch Me If You Can

Our next blog will likely come to you during or shortly after the 21st STN EXPO that starts next weekend in Reno, Nev. Until...

Updated: N.Y. District to Change Policy on Reporting Intoxication, Former Bus Driver Charged

The former Wayne (N.Y.) Central School District bus operator accused of driving drunk was in court Monday and indicted on 10 counts, including multiple DWI...

$90M Awarded in Bus-Stop Crossing Death as Research Shows a Rise in Such Fatalities

Parents concerned about child safety often make headlines in a pre-emptive strike, yet other times it takes a tragedy to spur calls for improvement....

April 2024

Meet the 2024 Superintendent of the Year, Dr. Joe Gothard of Saint Paul Public Schools in Minnesota. Learn more...

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