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unusual facts about school bus



Huguenot High School

With its property actually adjoining the border with Chesterfield County in the Bon Air area, some of the students assigned to Huguenot High School had very long school bus rides from the East End of the city.


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1985 in Israel

11 June – HaBonim disaster: 22 people, including 19 children, are killed when a train collides into a school bus at a railway crossing near HaBonim.

1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision

On October 25, 1995, at 7:10 am CDT, Metra train number 624, traveling approximately 50 mph (80 km/h) at the time of impact, collided with the back of a school bus carrying students to Cary-Grove High School at the intersection of Algonquin Road, Northwest Highway (U.S. Highway 14) and a double-tracked mainline belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad.

Coldfoot, Alaska

The Coldfoot truck stop was founded by Iditarod champion Dick Mackey who started his operation by selling hamburgers out of a converted school bus.

Ennepetal

The town was featured in the headlines when on April 12, 2005, a hostage taker snatched several school children from a school bus and took them as hostages, see Ennepetal hostage taking.

First Student

First Student (United States) - the first use of the brand and also used for former Laidlaw school bus operations

First Student UK - yellow school bus service in the United Kingdom

Lions Bay

After Grade 3, students mostly move on to the K-7 Gleneagles Ch'axáý Elementary School in Horseshoe Bay and then to Rockridge High School at Caulfeild; the school district provides school bus service.

Middleton bus station

Rossendalebus also provide some school bus services that call at Middleton bus station, while Rossendalebus also provide a seasonal service to Blackpool and Fleetwood.

Plaxton Verde

In 2003 they passed to sister company Bus Éireann and were converted to single door for school bus work.

School bus yellow

Dr. Cyr's conference, funded by a $5,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, was also a landmark event inasmuch as it included transportation officials from each of the then-48 states, as well as specialists from school bus manufacturing and paint companies.

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

The Magic School Bus

The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen.

Whitehorse Transit

-- I can't find these on the internet --> and replaced them with Superior school-bus type mini-buses, and in 1981, an Orion bus from Ontario Bus Industries was the first full-sized transit bus to operate in the city, arriving in time to be used for a world skiing championship.