School buses are nothing fancy underneath, ... Obviously, the bus needs the lengthy frame rails to support the three-and-a-half-ton body, but all that steel serves double duty for crash protection.

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The buses were sold to dozens of school districts ... but more often shipped by rail, to the huge body works in Wilson. Murray recalls seeing cranes lifting bare frames onto Atlantic Coast Line ...

School bus driver Jenifer Chiodo takes a moment to ... “Compare an electric battery that’s placed low in between the buses’ frame rails, out of the way of impact, to a 50-gallon tank of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – An accident involving a school bus blocked trolley rails near Fairmount Park Thursday night. The accident was reported shortly before 8 p.m. at N. 39 th Street and W.

A school bus was sideswiped by an SUV at a rail crossing in Vernon Wednesday at about 4:20 p.m., but state troopers said no one was injured, including the only child who was on the bus at that point.

A crossing gate arm came down on the hood of a school bus in Freetown on Tuesday ... at a grade crossing in the newly opened South Coast Rail territory, which is providing cities and towns ...

1 Dead, 5 in Critical Condition After School Bus Hits Guard Rail and Flips on S.C. Highway: Reports. The school bus overturned with almost 40 people onboard after blowing a tire on Thursday, ...

A school bus, operated by a 63-year-old driver, collided with a bridge railing on L502 near the B270 junction at Walzweiher on Monday at approximately 3:50 p.m., after evading an oncoming vehicle.

Luce spruced up the frame with steel, later converting the whole bus to steel in 1935. Since then, ... a 1927 Blue Bird School Bus — the oldest surviving example in the U.S.