N.Y. - "Safe" Unionized School Bus Drivers Cause Thousands of Accidents a Year
They claim they’re fighting to keep children safe, but
statistics show that city school-bus drivers — the vast majority members of the
striking union — are really hell on wheels.
Buses with public-school contracts were involved in more
than 1,700 accidents in which the driver was at fault in each of the past five
years for which numbers are available, according to statistics compiled by the
city’s Department of Education.
The incidents range from minor fender-benders to
collisions that resulted in 912 injuries in 2011, the latest year for which
stats are available.
A year earlier, there were 1,792 accidents resulting in
two deaths and 1,796 injuries.
Despite this bloody record, the Amalgamated Transit Union
Local 1181 claims its crippling bus strike is being waged in the best interests
of its student passengers — because only its members can do the job safely.
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