Officials...School Buses Safe

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…Data provided by the Kentucky Department of Education shows that the state's 10,000 school buses are involved in hundreds of incidents each year, ranging from major wrecks to simple scrapes with a mailbox. There was an average of 1,434 school bus incidents per school year in Kentucky from 2007-2008 to 2010-2011. During that time, two students riding buses were killed. The U.S. Department of Transportation says school buses are still the safest way to transport students to and from school. Ronna Weber, executive director of the National School Transportation Association, says children are almost 50 times safer riding in a school bus than driving themselves or with a teen driver, and almost eight times safer than traveling in the cars of parents or guardians.