While you might expect school buses to have similar safety features to cars, but most don't even have seatbelts. Why not, and ...

A car is wedged under a school bus that crashed in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is endorsing three-point seat belts on school buses for the first time. NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind, speaking on Sunday, acknowledged that ...

Students have returned to school, and back onboard those bright yellow buses with their rows and rows of high-backed seats.

Parents and some lawmakers have been pushing for years to have seat belts on school buses, but their efforts have made little progress, partly because of the high cost of retrofitting school buses.

Depending on size, a typical new school bus can cost $75,000 to $85,000 and outfitting a single bus with seat belts can cost between $5,485 and $7,346, according to NHTSA, based on the number of ...

The service has more than 2,000 school buses in total, and all of them had some sort of seat belt by 2012. A $250,000 grant from the Texas Education Agency helped Dallas County Schools get it done.

While school buses in countries outside of North America usually look like any other buses, North American school buses are distinctive for their yellow color. It wasn’t always that way.

However, if the addition of seat belts reduced the capacity of school buses — forcing students to travel by car, bike or foot — 10 to 19 students could die each year.

Still, only a handful of states — Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas — have laws calling for seat belts on school buses.