How safe are the buses in your school district?
The highway patrol just released the results of more than 1,000 school bus inspections.
The good news is 89-percent received passing scores.
But some districts had to make repairs.
KRCG’s Facebook crew breaks down the results.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol inspects buses every February, March, April and again before the school year starts.
The highway patrol believes the inspections are making buses a lot safer.
"School buses are probably one of the safest modes of transportation we have when you look at traffic crash statistics. In most cases students do not actually get injured or killed when they're on a school bus, it's after they get off that crashes occur,” MO State Highway Patrol Capt. Tim Hull said.
Out of 1,006 bus inspections 28 buses were marked out of service.
Smaller districts are hit hardest because they have fewer buses running.
For example: the numbers show 33-percent of Fayette’s buses were ordered out of service, that's 4 out of 12.
A major defect forcing a district to take a bus off the streets could be something like a cracked frame, or a fuel leak.
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The good news is 89-percent received passing scores.
But some districts had to make repairs.
KRCG’s Facebook crew breaks down the results.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol inspects buses every February, March, April and again before the school year starts.
The highway patrol believes the inspections are making buses a lot safer.
"School buses are probably one of the safest modes of transportation we have when you look at traffic crash statistics. In most cases students do not actually get injured or killed when they're on a school bus, it's after they get off that crashes occur,” MO State Highway Patrol Capt. Tim Hull said.
Out of 1,006 bus inspections 28 buses were marked out of service.
Smaller districts are hit hardest because they have fewer buses running.
For example: the numbers show 33-percent of Fayette’s buses were ordered out of service, that's 4 out of 12.
A major defect forcing a district to take a bus off the streets could be something like a cracked frame, or a fuel leak.
Read More