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There are 585,000 school buses transporting children in the United States, logging millions of miles each day. Accidents are inevitable, resulting in 17,000 emergency-room visits and an average 20 deaths annually. USA Today, in a 2005 article, noted that the buses are top-heavy and prone to rolling over. Only a handful of states require that new school buses have seat belts (and many older ones do not) and fewer still require that students wear them.
"School buses are old-fashioned, outdated and don't give children the benefit of current safety techniques," Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, told the newspaper. If your child suffered a serious injury or death in a school bus accident, you may have a legal claim. Click here to contact a school bus attorney. The latest data on school bus accidents, contained in a study by researchers at Columbus (Ohio) Children's Hospital Center for Injury Research and Policy, showed that school bus-related accidents send 17,000 riders to emergency rooms each year. The study was reported in November 2006. Many of the injuries were suffered by students riding in buses during crashes, but many others occurred when children were boarding or leaving school buses. Of the 20 fatalities occurring typically each year, five are suffered by students riding buses and 15 are struck while outside a school bus. In one such incident, Ashley Zauflik, a 17-year-old student at Pennsbury High School in Pennsylvania, was run over when a school bus ran out of control. Doctors had to amputate her left leg above the knee after an infection threatened her life. She suffered other injuries that required kidney support and she was placed in a medically induced coma for treatment. Tom Kline, along with Doylestown attorney William L. Goldman Jr., was retained to represent Ashley Zauflik. (See television and newspaper accounts of the accident.) Kline & Specter is based in Philadelphia and has some 30 attorneys, five of them also highly skilled doctors. The law firm has had success litigating personal injury claims in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and nationwide. For a free evaluation of your case, contact a school bus lawyer. For other automobile accidents, including those involving cars, trucks, buses or 15-passenger vans or accidents involving rollovers, roof crushes, faulty seat belts, defective brakes or airbags, visit our Auto Accident page. Kline & Specter handles cases in the areas:
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. In New Jersey: Atlantic City, Cape May, Cherry Hill, Hackensack, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Montclair, Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Union City, Voorhees. In Delaware: Dover and Newark regions. *** Kline & Specter handles major cases throughout the United States. Select a state: Alabama AL, Alaska AK, Arizona AZ, Arkansas AR, California CA, Colorado CO, Connecticut CT, Delaware DE, District of Columbia DC, Florida FL, Georgia GA, Hawaii HI, Idaho ID, Illinois IL, Indiana IN, Iowa IA, Kansas KS, Kentucky KY, Louisiana LA, Maine ME, Maryland MD, Massachusetts MA, Michigan MI, Minnesota MN, Mississippi MS, Missouri MO, Montana MT, Nebraska NE, Nevada NV, New Hampshire NH, New Jersey NJ, New Mexico NM, New York NY, North Carolina NC, North Dakota ND, Ohio OH, Oklahoma OK, Oregon OR, Pennsylvania PA, Rhode Island RI, South Carolina SC, South Dakota SD, Tennessee TN, Texas TX, Utah UT, Vermont VT, Virginia VA, Washington WA, West Virginia WV, Wisconsin WI, Wyoming WY Disclaimer: Kline & Specter, P.C. only provides legal advice after having entered into an attorney client relationship, which our website specifically does not create. It is imperative that any action taken be done on advice of counsel. Because every case is different, the description of awards and cases previously handled do not guarantee a similar outcome in current or future cases. The firm practices law in New Jersey as Kline & Specter. Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America and other organizations that rate attorneys are not designations that have been approved by the State Supreme Courts or the American Bar Association.
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