As with an accident on Tuesday morning, the accident on Wednesday morning involved a school bus from the Humble Independent School District. The bus was hit by another vehicle immediately north of Beltway 8 on Lockwood around 7 o’clock.

Both drivers were taken to a hospital, as was one of the 32 students who were riding in the school bus. Their conditions are not yet known.

The other students on the bus did not require hospitalization.

Statistics show that going to school on a school bus is the safest way for students to travel. Nonetheless, school bus accidents can occur, though not necessarily due to the fault of the school system or the bus driver.

Keep in mind that school buses travel an estimated 4 billion miles while carrying around 24 million students each year. Yet the death rate on school buses is 0.2 persons for every 100 million miles that they travel.

Granted, this is no consolation for someone whose child suffers injury or death in a school bus accident. But it is reason for hope if your child must go to and from school each day
via a school bus.