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No school bus passengers were killed anywhere in PA for 21 years!
Pennsylvania school bus crashes and injuries at lowest level in at least 23 years in 2015 Tell your Representative to VOTE NO on SB 1098
Dear Pennsylvania Drivers:
Oppose Senate Bill 1098.
Cameras make safe drivers criminals with help from politicians and bureaucrats. Camera traffic enforcement is everywhere and always a racket to steal money from safe drivers.
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“…no school bus passengers were killed anywhere in Pennsylvania from 1994 through 2015.” That’s 21 years!
This comes from a Lancaster County newspaper. Stop-arm cameras are unnecessary. Tell your Representative to VOTE NO on SB 1098, authorizing stop-arm cameras on school buses. Voting in favor of this bill is voting on emotion instead of facts. An election year is not a good time to pass a predatory tax bill, and SB 1098 is a predatory tax on drivers.
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Sincerely,
Tom McCarey Member, National Motorists Association
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Pennsylvania school bus crashes and injuries at lowest level in at least 23 years in 2015
TIM BUCKWALTER | Data Journalist
Nov 30, 2016
Recent school bus accidents have claimed lives in Tennessee and caused injuries to Lancaster County students traveling to a band exhibition.
But overall, the safety record for school buses in Pennsylvania has improved markedly in recent years.
State data show 2015 was one of the safest years on record for school buses in Pennsylvania, with the number of crashes and injuries to passengers at their lowest levels since at least 1992.
Data is not yet available for 2016, but in 2015 there were 312 school bus crashes in Pennsylvania and 128 bus passengers were injured, according to PennDOT's annual Crash Facts & Statistics reports.
The reports do not provide county-level data. But they show that no school bus passengers were killed anywhere in Pennsylvania from 1994 through 2015.
That doesn't mean there weren't other deaths. In fact, six people died in school buses accidents in Pennsylvania 2015. Five were drivers or passengers in other vehicles, and one was a school-age pedestrian.
But because of the size, weight and height of school buses, their passengers often escape unhurt or with only minor injuries when buses collide with other, lighter vehicles.
In one of the most recent school bus accidents involving local students, three Manheim Township buses collided while transporting band members to a competition in Delaware County.
Ten students and an adult chaperone suffered minor injuries in the mishap, which occurred in traffic congestion in Route 76. Two buses had stopped, and the third bus hit the back of the second bus, pushing it into the first bus.
