According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, around 134 people die in school-vehicle-related crashes every year. Losing lives is devastating on its own; but when you know that children are a part of the accident and can be seriously hurt or even die as well, it is imperative to ensure their safety.
What kinds of accidents and injuries can occur?
School buses may get in accidents with other vehicles, objects, or due to the school bus driver. When there is an accident with another vehicle or object, the injuries that result from these collisions can be deadly depending on the severity of the crash. Typically, they can cause broken bones, concussions or traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, bruising, or whiplash. When the accident is the result of the school bus driver’s conduct, the injuries vary greatly based on how reckless they were driving. However, they are fairly similar to a collision’s injuries.
Who is liable?
One important concept in these types of accidents is the common carrier law. The common carrier law holds that any public transportation vehicles owe their passengers the highest duty of care when transporting them from place to place. So negligence occurs when this high duty of care is breached and injuries directly result from the accident. In an accident with another vehicle, the driver who caused the accident due to negligence will be liable.
The negligent driver can be determined through the attorneys’ investigation of the accident. In an accident with another object, the driver is likely the liable party for driving with negligence. In accidents where the school bus driver is driving in a reckless or dangerous manner, they would be the negligent party. The driver may be drunk, too fatigued, or perhaps simply reckless. If the driver has been improperly trained, then the liability may fall on the school bus company for allowing someone unfit for the job to do it.
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