Kentucky School Bus Accident Totals Steady

December 11, 2012 by

Records show that the Kentucky’s 10,000 school buses are involved in hundreds of incidents each year, ranging from major wrecks to simple scrapes with a mailbox.

An Associated Press analysis of state data shows there was an average of 1,434 school bus incidents per school year in Kentucky from 2007-2008 to 2010-2011.

The state broadly tracks “incidents,” which can include anything from a fatal wreck to a bus simply hitting a mailbox.

During that time, two students riding buses were killed.