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School Bus Accident - The Need for Injury Attorneys

Each and every year the children across this country are exposed to dangerous and sometimes deadly school bus accidents. Injuries suffered in a school bus accident can range from serious personal injuries, broken ankle to death. No to mention the mental trauma a child will suffer. Recovering for physical pain and suffering and economic loss, past and present, is difficult in today’s legal system without experienced and local injury attorneys. If you or a family member has suffered a loss in a school bus accident, call us day or night at 800-862-1260.

School bus accident statistics raise many other alarming issues for our children. In fact, being injured by a school bus in Texas, can be fatal. If you or someone you know has been injured in a school bus accident, you should retain experienced school bus accident attorneys. Did you know that every year hundreds of traffic fatalities occur involving a school bus -- all to often young children are injured or killed in school bus accidents. In 2003, over 450,000 large vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds were involved in traffic crashes in the United States; 4,669 heavy vehicles were involved in fatal traffic accidents. The costs for fatal traffic accidents exceed well over $20 billion, including $8.7 billion in productivity losses, $2.5 billion in resource costs, and quality of life losses valued at $13.1 billion. A vehicle is considered large if its gross vehicle weight rating exceeds 10,000 pounds.

In many cases involving school buses, the following are determined as the cause of the loss:

  • Running off the road
  • Following to close to other vehicles
  • Failure to yield the right of way
  • Aggressive school bus driving behavior
  • Lack of training on the part of the driver
  • Overloaded buses
  • Poorly maintained brakes
  • School bus in poor condition
  • Weather conditions are poor due to fog, snow, rain, or smoke
  • School Bus driver inexperience or lack of training
  • Fatigued, sleepy or tired school bus operators
  • Drivers of the school bus driving over the speed limit or driving the school bus at high speeds
  • School bus operator driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol
  • Unsafe safety systems, reflectors, lights, and other warning devices

Did you know that school buses are the biggest type of mass transit in the United States, providing almost nine million student trips every year. In comparison, this is twice as many passenger trips than are provided by transit buses across the nation. Almost half a million school buses transport 24 million students to and from school, or school related activities, each school day. It is our belief that school bus accidents are all too common. If you or a family member have suffered a loss in a school bus accident, call us day or night at 800-862-1260.

In less than 15 years over 400,000 fatal traffic accidents have occurred in the United States. National school bus accident statistics define a school bus-related crash as those that directly or indirectly involve a school bus-type vehicle, a vehicle functioning as a school bus by transporting students to or from school or related activities. School bus related accidents account for one third of one percent of these deaths. According to published school bus accident statistics, 1,450 people have been killed in school bus related accidents since 1990. Of these fatal accident victims, 67 percent were the occupants of other vehicles involved in the school bus accident, 25 percent were pedestrians or bicyclists, and nine percent were passengers in school bus-type vehicles.

It is important to realize that current school bus accident statistics translate into over 30 school aged children are wrongfully killed in school bus accidents each and every year. Seven of these are passengers in a school bus and twenty are pedestrians. Of these twenty pedestrians, fourteen are killed by school buses and the other six are killed by other vehicles involved in a school bus accident. More than one half of all pedestrian fatalities involve a child between the ages of five and seven. Published school bus accident statistics show that most school aged pedestrians are killed in school bus accidents between the hours of three and four in the afternoon. Additionally, the hour between seven and eight o'clock in the morning is where the children are most often the victim of school bus accidents. According to school bus accident statistics almost one half (45 percent) of all school bus accidents involve impacts to the front end of a school bus. Other common crash types include right side impacts, non-collisions, and left side impacts, rear impacts, and top impacts in descending order.

If you, or someone you love, have been killed or injured in a school bus accident, you can seek compensation under Texas Law in a personal injury or wrongful death case. If you are seriously injured, the chances are, you need counsel on how you can push the school district or their insurance carrier to pay for hospital bills, medical procedures and medical billings, lost wages and/or vehicle damage and reimbursement for your loss of use of your vehicle. As you may realize school bus accidents can result in complex litigation. In these cases, there are often multiple plaintiffs and multiple defendants. Complex legal issues arise when suing municipalities and even school districts. The law governing bus accidents can be somewhat complicated, to anyone. That is why you need an experience attorney to represent you on a school bus accident loss. If you or a loved one was injured in a school bus accident, it is important to seek legal advice immediately. If you or a family member have suffered a loss in a school bus accident, call us day or night at 800-862-1260.

In our opinion school bus accidents are amongst the most tragic of all motor vehicle accidents due to the inherent involvement of young children. As a result, substantial damages are often at issue in cases of this type of accident. Vigorous representation is required to bring all responsible parties to justice. If you or a loved one was injured in a school bus accident, it is important to seek legal advice immediately. If you or a family member have suffered a loss in a school bus accident, call us day or night at 800-862-1260.

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