A rash of early-morning school bus accidents across the country – in Florida, Indiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania – over the course of a single week have highlighted the serious scourge of distracted driving. Florida bus accident attorneys understand these incidents collectively ended in the deaths of five students, while six…
Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal has reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a school bus driver who, against district policy, advised students to cross a busy road in the dark before the bus arrived at their stop each morning. One of those students was…
A fiery bus accident in Florida recently killed 5 people and injured 25 others, leaving investigators to untangle the mystery of what might have caused the driver of a decades-old school bus to breeze through a flashing red light and slam into the side of a tractor-trailer. Both vehicles burst…
Less than a week after a charter bus crash in Texas killed nine people and injured 44, another charter bus crash in Florida killed two people and injured several more. Officials reported the driver of a Dodge Challenger collided with the bus as it was moving north on Northwest 27th…
Many times when we talk about school bus accidents and related injuries, we are focused on the well-being of the children aboard the bus or who are on the ground in the vicinity. However, there are a fair number of cases in which other drivers and passengers – often in…
After the fatal bus accident in St. Lucie County back at the end of March, officials with the St. Lucie County School District are stepping in and trying to offer insurance advice to parents of the victims. According to the TC Palm, a letter was sent home to parents offering…
We generally think of the big yellow bus as one of the safest ways to transport our kids to school. But fall session has only just begun and already we have a bus accident to report in Pasco County. Our Fort Lauderdale school bus accident lawyers realize that school bus…