U.S. Department Of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Table 26. Bus Occupant Fatalities in Bus Crashes by Type of Bus, 1975-2008

Year

School

Cross-Country Intercity

Transit

Unknown

Other

Total

1975

16

  8

21

  2

  6

53

1976

21

  3

  8

39

  2

73

1977

14

  5

14

  5

  4

42

1978

19

  6

  8

  5

  3

41

1979

17

  6

  8

  4

  4

39

1980

14

23

  6

  2

  1

46

1981

12

  6

23

11

  4

56

1982

  9

  5

11

10

  0

35

1983

17

  9

  4

21

  2

53

1984

20

  9

  9

  7

  1

46

1985

24

15

  4

12

  2

57

1986

  2

  4

  4

24

  5

39

1987

14

19

  3

11

  4

51

1988

38

  8

  2

  4

  2

54

1989

33

  3

  1

  8

  5

50

1990

13

  2

  3

  3

11

32

1991

10

  6

  3

  9

  3

31

1992

  7

  8

  3

  3

  7

28

1993

  6

  1

  5

  4

  2

18

1994

  2

  7

  6

  1

  2

18

1995

12

  6

  1

  9

  5

33

1996

10

  3

  5

  3

  0

21

1997

  8

  5

  3

  1

  1

18

1998

  6

13

  2

15

  2

38

1999

  8

32

  6

  4

  9

59

2000

16

  3

  1

  1

  1

22

2001

16

  3

  4

  7

  4

34

2002

  2

20

  6

  9

  8

45

2003

  7

  3

12

10

  9

41

2004

  7

23

  2

10

  0

42

2005

  8

33

  3

  8

  6

58

2006

  6

  8

  1

  8

  4

27

2007

  3

19

  5

  9

  0

36

2008

14

41

  6

  5

  1

67

Notes: A bus is defined as a motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 passengers, not including the driver. For the data shown in Tables 23, 24, 25, and 26 of this report, FMCSA’s coding for three buses involved in crashes differs from the coding in FARS. Two buses that were coded in FARS as “other” buses and one bus coded as a “transit” bus were recoded by FMCSA as “intercity/cross country” buses. These recodings resulted in much higher number of “fatalities” and “occupant fatalities” for intercity/cross country buses.

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).

 

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