Interesting facts:
• Approximately 480,000 yellow school buses carry 25 million children to and from school every weekday.
• In the United States we lose more than 800 children every year because they are not in school buses. Most of the fatalities (55%) occur in cars driven by teenagers.
• According to the National Academy of Sciences, an average of 820 students are killed annually during school transportation hours, but less than 2% of them are school bus passengers.
• Only half of America's students take the school bus to school; the others use more dangerous forms of transportation.