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Student Transporters Take Precautions to Keep Illness Off School Buses

February is considered the peak of flu season. Though the current flu season has not generated breaking news about pandemics or new strains, influenza and whooping cough are still a concern for school districts and their transportation departments. [Read more]

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NTSB Final Report on 2010 Missouri School Bus Crash Uncovers Troubling Issues

The National Transportation Safety Board says driver inattention, faulty school bus brakes and inadequate following distances all contributed to a fatal crash in Gray Summit, Mo., 18 months ago that involved two school buses and killed a high school band member. [Read more]

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Update: Both Houses of Calif. Legislature Approve Bill to Restore $248M in Transportation Funding

Many California school districts breathed a sigh of relief today after both houses of the legislature approved Senate Bill 81, fast-tracked legislation that restores $248 million in transportation cuts made in December to help plug the state's budget hole. [Read more]

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NAPT Performance Assessment Project to Measure Operations, Track Successes

The National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) board of directors announced that a project launched last fall at its annual conference is resulting in a variety of customized metrics that will help members improve the quality of service offered to parents and students. [Read more]


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Association Corner
Written by Janna Smeltzer   
The Minnesota Association for Pupil Transportation would like to notify member that in the Winter 2009 MAPT newsletter, the wrong State law for School Bus Post Crash Inspections was inadvertently published.

The law published was Minnesota Statute 169.783, which is for commercial vehicles such as trucking.

The correct School Bus Post Crash Inspections law is Minnesota Statute 169.4511, which is listed below.

169.4511 SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT OPERATION
Subdivision 1.Postcrash inspection.(a) A peace officer responding to an accident involving a school bus or Head Start bus must immediately notify the State Patrol if the accident results in:

(1) a fatality;
(2) bodily injury to a person who, as a result of the injury, immediately receives medical treatment away from the scene of the accident; or(3) one or more motor vehicles incurring disabling damage as a result of the accident, requiring a motor vehicle to be transported away from the scene by tow truck or other motor vehicle.
(b) No person shall drive or knowingly permit or cause to be driven, for the purpose of transporting students, any school bus or Head Start bus after such an accident unless:
(1) the vehicle has been inspected by the Minnesota State Patrol and the State Patrol has determined that the vehicle may safely be
operated; or
(2) a waiver has been granted under subdivision 2.
(c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.

Subd. 2.Waiver.A state trooper or designee of the Minnesota State Patrol called to the scene of an accident by a responding peace officer under subdivision 1 may waive the inspection requirement of subdivision 1 if the trooper or State Patrol designee determines that a postcrash inspection is not needed or cannot be accomplished without unreasonable delay. The trooper or State Patrol designee granting a waiver must provide to the driver of the school bus for which the waiver is granted a written statement that the inspection has been waived. The written statement must include the incident report number assigned to the accident by the State Patrol.

 

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