Officials shut down man's free bus rides
After a licensed school bus driver finished his route, he decided to help after seeing lots of other children walking to school in the cold. As Tony Dokoupil reports, the offer was short-lived.
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After a licensed school bus driver finished his route, he decided to help after seeing lots of other children walking to school in the cold. As Tony Dokoupil reports, the offer was short-lived.
The National Transportation Safety Board announced it has opened an investigation into Waymo robotaxis following a series of incidents in Austin involving school buses filled with children.
Waymo, the ride-hailing service, says it is planning a voluntary software recall to fix a glitch after reports its self-driving cars don't stop for school buses. The company has already tried to fix the issue, but police in Texas said it didn't work. Kris Van Cleave reports.
The end of a school day is normally routine in Carrie Thorpe's neighborhood, but a couple weeks ago, as her daughter was getting dropped off, she noticed smoke and flames coming from under the bus. CBS News Minnesota's John Lauritsen has the story.
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, have released a video they say shows a man encouraging his daughter to punch another child. CBS News correspondent Shanelle Kaul reports.
A CBS News review found growing concerns about dangerous driving near schools in the U.S. One in three public school officials say traffic near their buildings "poses a threat" to students. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane spoke to one man about his safety mission after a personal tragedy.
An alarming bullying incident on a school bus caught on video raises troubling questions about how the driver and school district handled the incident. The video shows a Texas 5-year-old being attacked by other kids. The driver appears to do nothing, despite pleas from the little girl. As Omar Villafranca reports, her mom wants that driver fired.
The driver was headed to Monticello Middle School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio when a fire broke out behind one of the bus's rear wheels.
Eight students were injured after a car struck a Wisconsin school bus and caused it to spin off the road Monday morning.
Police in China have taken a bus driver into custody after the vehicle crashed into students and parents outside a school in Shandong province, killing 11 people.
School districts around the country have put over 4,500 electric buses on the road, but more funding is needed.
The Environmental Protection Agency and several states are working to provide funding for electric school buses, and proponents say the benefits far outweigh the hefty price tag. Jo Ling Kent has more.
The Oakland Unified School District is the first in the nation to deploy an all-electric school bus fleet that will be entrusted with transporting all the district's special needs students. Juliette Goodrich has more.
Millions of children ride school buses every school day, but the vast majority of those vehicles lack basic safety features like seatbelts and airbags for drivers. Mark Strassmann takes a look at the people and groups pushing to make school buses safer.
The school bus was carrying 44 pre-K students on their way back from a field trip to the zoo, officials said.
At least two people were killed and several more injured when a school bus carrying more than three dozen pre-K students Friday was involved in a crash on a highway outside Austin, Texas. Omar Villafranca reports.
Two 3-year-olds and a 5-year-old were killed when a school bus crashed into a semi-truck in Rushville, Illinois.
Five people, including three students, were killed when a school bus and a semi-truck crashed in Rushville, Illinois. Roxana Saberi reports.
A family is demanding answers after a 5-year-old girl was left alone on a school bus for hours Thursday in Dartmouth.
All of the students were transported to local hospitals, but had non-life-threatening injuries after the crash Thursday morning in North Carolina.
School buses run on diesel and can be heavy polluters, releasing harmful gases into the air while ferrying millions of children. Around the country, there's a push to switch the buses to electric options. Manuel Bojorquez has more.
Reid Moon of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, likes to say he has about 200 kids, but they're not his biological children. They're the students who rode his school bus, a job he held for 27 years before retiring. When some of the now-grown students gathered recently for one last ride, they talked with correspondent Steve Hartman about the lessons they'd learned from the man in the driver's seat.
"No, they're not biologically my kids, but emotionally they surely are."
Public schools are heading into the 2023-24 year in need of hundreds of drivers, causing some to even cancel classes.
The bus was carrying about 30 teens and staff who were returning to Boise from a YMCA summer camp.