Having served as an expert witness on nearly 60 crossing accidents, roughly half of them involving school buses, I found certain themes common to many
Drummed into my head as a schoolchild was the mantra, “Cross at the Green, Not In Between.” This slogan still provides the basis for Today’s
Transportation Professionals may think of crossing-related accidents as a school bus phenomenon. Yet as a veteran expert witness of more than 50 crossing-related lawsuits, I
At the rudimentary level at which most crossing procedures are executed, school bus drivers are supposed to “direct” the students across the roadway when they
Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series examined the limitations of our present 8-way flasher system (for those students whose buses are lucky enough
To a school bus professional at any level, the importance of red flashers and stop arms is beyond intuitive; it is primeval. But is it
There have been plenty of explanations for the phenomenon of school bus pass-bys. Among them is lax law enforcement, eroding increasingly as funding for such
Several articles ago (“The Steel Wave” in the May, 2008 of STN), I argued for the first of four crossing-related equipment changes that I feel
As it affects liability, an operating agency’s status as a “common carrier” has an enormous impact not only on determining liability itself, but depending on
Unlike those of many transit systems, school bus stops are not always identified with signage – at either the precise position of the stop or
