A school bus was rear-ended last Monday at about 8:26 a.m. and according to the accident report, no injuries were reported. The accident occurred when the bus was traveling on the westbound lanes of the Ranchero Road. According to the California Highway Patrol, a sedan hit the bus as soon as it stopped at Maple Avenue. The causes behind the collision were not immediately reported. At this moment, the California Highway Patrol is investigating this collision. For more details on (read more)
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14
Aug
2012
School Bus Accident Reported, Nobody Was Hurt
07
Jun
2012
Children Injured in School Bus Crash
Multiple news articles locally published by several sources have revealed that four people were injured in a school bus accident last Monday morning. According to an official accident report recently released by the California Highway Patrol, a school bus traveling near Orange Cove when a Honda Civic and the school bus collided. Details regarding the causes behind the accident were not available but according to the troopers who responded to the scene, witnesses claim that the Honda driver was critically injured while (read more)
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18
Oct
2011
SUV Crashes Into Fresno School Bus
According to news sources, an accident took place involving a school bus when an SUV apparently ran a red traffic light and slammed into the Fresno school bus, injuring four people. The accident took place at Grantland and McKinley when the SUV reportedly ran a stop sign and collided with the side of the Fresno school bus, the California Highway Patrol said. The vehicle then went on to spin uncontrollably before once again smashing into the school bus. A CHP (read more)
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12
Oct
2011
School Bus Crashes Into Tractor
According to news sources, five adult special-education students and a bus driver were sent to a hospital after a school bus crashed into a tractor Wednesday morning and overturned on the road in Sacramento. A superintendent at the Dixon Unified School District said that the students were between the ages of 18 to 22 and that they were qualified for special education services. The accident occurred when the school bus driver apparently attempted to pass a tractor and as a (read more)
Read MoreA recent motion from the Center for Auto Safety and the National Coalition for School Bus Safety that would mandate school buses across the country to install seat belts has been denied, according to news reports. The rejection came from The National Highway Safety Administration (NHSA), who maintained that school buses are one of the safest vehicles on the roadways. The Administration came to the conclusion that cost of installing seat belts outweighed the potential safety benefits. Arthur Yeager, a (read more)
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22
Jun
2011
San Diego Area Bus Shooting Was an Accident
According to news sources, San Diego County officials have determined that the bullet that struck a school bus door on the Rincon Indian Reservation Monday was an accident. The school bus was carrying six children and two adults when it was struck by a .22 caliber bullet in the door. The glass in the door shattered but no one was injured. Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Bishop said that investigators discovered a 17-year-old boy was target shooting at a nearby home. He (read more)
Read MoreNews sources report, one person was injured when a car collided with a school bus Monday afternoon in Lake Mathews. According to the California Highway Patrol, at about 2:15 p.m., the sedan failed to stop at a red light, crossing into the intersection of Cajalco Road and La Sierra Avenue and hitting the bus. The accident occurred at the edge of Lake Mathews city limits. An ambulance was dispatched to the accident scene where one person suffered minor injuries. It (read more)
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19
May
2011
Santa Rosa Bus Crash Injures 1
In a press release from the California Highway Patrol, Officer Steven Fricke stated that one person was injured when a school bus failed to yield to an oncoming minivan, causing the two to collide in Santa Rosa Thursday morning. The 2004 First Student Bus, containing the driver and one student, stopped at a red light on Guerneville Road at Ridley Avenue. When the light turned green, the bus turned left onto Ridley Avenue, but allegedly failed to yield to an (read more)
Read MoreA Rancho Peñasquitos school bus driver was injured after a series of collisions ending with the bus he was driving crashing into a home, according to news reports. The bus was pulling into an area elementary school around 1:30 p.m. when it hit an unoccupied parked car. The bus then went over an embankment, struck a tree then traveled back into the roadway where it collided with an occupied van, finally crashing into the garage door of a home, say (read more)
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10
Mar
2011
School Bus Rear-Ended by Motorcyclist
A bus was hit by a motorcyclist around 3:40pm near Cherokee Lane on East Lod Avenue, causing injury to the rider who was sent to Lodi Memorial Hospital for significant injuries.
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