Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An electric bus photographed at the Zum Transportation bus yard in Branford on February 13, 2026. (Arnold Gold/Hearst Connecticut ...

Longview school districts don’t have the money to outfit their fleets of buses with seat belts required by a new state law, ...

Other than Texas, only eight states have a law mandating seat belts on school buses. Texas' 2017 law mandates that all newly purchased school buses built after 2018 have three-point safety restraints, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of a three-vehicle crash in Southbury on Feb. 12 that involved a school bus and seriously injured two students. The ...

On any given school day, more than 25 million kids ride a school bus, one of the safest vehicles on the road — with one exception: the vast majority of those buses have no seatbelts. Videos of ...

Federal officials have long urged states to implement seat belt requirements on school buses, but only nine states have done so. On the first day of school for a district in Clark County, Ohio, one ...

Since the double fatal school bus crash in Carroll County last week, some have been left wondering if seat belts would have ...

PEMBROKE, N.Y. — The National Transportation Safety Board was back on scene Sunday in Pembroke to continue its investigation into the tour bus rollover on the New York State Thruway that killed five ...

School bus seat manufacturer IMMI opened a manufacturing facility in Macon this month. IMMI’s 75,000 square-foot plant will support school bus maker Blue Bird located in Fort Valley. Katie Tucker The ...

Three years ago, the federal government issued several new requirements related to school bus occupant protection. Two of the key provisions in the final rule, from the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

The district filed its cost estimate and seat belt status with TEA after board approval; full compliance is required by 2029.