School Bus Accidents
C rary, Clark & Domanico are Spokane injury attorneys, located in Spokane Valley. Our experienced lawyers are very adept at handling school bus accident cases.An average of 19 school children die in school transportation-related traffic crashes each year in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. On average, five of those 19 victims are occupants of school transportation vehicles and 14 are pedestrians. Thousands more are injured badly enough to require emergency room medical care.
National school bus accident statistics define a school bus-related crash as one that directly or indirectly involve: a school bus-type vehicle, a vehicle functioning as a school bus by transporting students to or from school or related activities.
According to official school bus accident statistics, 1,450 people have been killed in school bus related accidents since 1990. Of these fatal accident victims, 67 percent were the occupants of other vehicles involved in the school bus accident, 25 percent were pedestrians or bicyclists, and nine percent were passengers in school bus-type vehicles.
These school bus accident statistics translate into the following figure: approximately 27 school-aged children die in school bus accidents every year. Seven of these are passengers in a school bus and twenty are pedestrians. Of these twenty pedestrians, fourteen are killed by school buses and the other six are killed by other vehicles involved in a school bus accident. More than one half of all pedestrian fatalities involve a child between the ages of five and seven.
School bus accident statistics show that most school-aged pedestrians are killed in school bus accidents between the hours of three and four in the afternoon. The hour between seven and eight o'clock in the morning is also a time where children are most often the victim of school bus accidents.
According to school bus accident statistics, almost one half (45 percent) of all school bus accidents involve impacts to the front end of a school bus. Other common crash types include right side impacts, non-collisions, left side impacts, rear impacts, and top impacts in descending order.
As Spokane Washington school bus accident lawyers, we help our clients establish the legal responsibility, review and prove the damages, and collect the financial settlement or judgment. We handle all of the aspects and are prepared to help our clients get through the pain and anguish resulting from the school bus accident.
We invite you to call us and discuss your school bus accident injury case at no obligation to you. We provide free case evaluation. We have a no recovery, no fee policy: unless compensation is obtained, no fee is owed. The smartest thing for you to do if you've been involved in a school bus accident is to seek good legal advice. Good advice starts right here, at CRARY, CLARK & DOMANICO. Call us at (509) 926-4900 or CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A SIMPLE CASE FORM as soon as possible so that your school bus accident case has the best chance at succeeding.