The goal of National School Bus Safety Week is to address the importance of school bus safety. This active and evolving program takes place each year during the third full week in October.
More than 25 million children are transported to and from school on big yellow buses. These school buses provide 10 billion school rides a year. About 500,000 school buses travel the roads each day. Despite the number of miles school buses travel, accidents are infrequent. School buses are considered to be the safest motor vehicles on the road. Even though this is good news, accidents do happen.
Throughout the week we'll be posting Bus Safety Tips.