Student transport

Targeted inspections of 1,621 school buses by traffic police Wednesday revealed a wide array of safety violations, including two cases of drivers not having the required driving license, three without a certificate of professional competence, and one vehicle with worn tires.

More than 10 vehicles, among them five school buses, were set ablaze in an arson attack in the Zografou district of central Athens, shortly after 3 a.m. on Thursday. 

The fire is believed to have started from the school buses and spread to the other vehicles, destroying five school busses, four cars and three motorcycles, all parked on Taxilou Street.

Parents and students in Istanbul are having a hard time as some 10,000 school buses are now off the roads because the drivers of those vehicles, fearing that schools may be closed again because of COVID-19, have not returned to their jobs.

A three-member court in Athens on Friday handed a six-month suspended sentence to the school bus driver and two escorts for abandoning a 3-year-old boy in a bus for at least three hours on October 2019.

The court, accepting the prosecutor's proposal, turned the charge of exposing a child to danger to negligent bodily harm.

A school bus driver and two escorts were arrested on Wednesday on charges of exposing a child to danger after abandoning a 3-year-old boy in a bus for at least three hours.

The incident occurred on Tuesday morning in the suburb of Pallini, eastern Attica, after the bus picked up children from their homes and transported them to a privater daycare center.

The World Vision Romania Children's Advisory Council addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, requesting free and safe school transport for pupils in rural areas.

The Cabinet has allocated BGN 20 million  for new school buses, it became clear at today's government meeting.

Over 100 school buses will be replaced with the funds allocated, said Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev, quoted by NOVA TV.

School bus crashes at the turnout of the Aitkovo village of Chukarka, eyewitnesses say.

The incident took place on the Aitos-Karnobat road.

Initial information, the driver of the bus has taken advantage and as a result of the maneuver has become a clash with two other cars.

A total of 599 school buses have been banned from traffic across Turkey following inspections carried out on Dec. 18.

Several cars and a school bus crashed in the German city of Dortmund, where 19 children were injured, DPA reported.

The bus was carrying about 40 children for swimming lessons when it hit several cars and hung a traffic light, then knocked on a wall.

In the crash his front glass was broken, and debris spilled along the way.