I rode the bus to school as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas. I clearly remember a school bus driver who seemed extra sleepy every morning while driving a bus full of kids. We would watch her nod in and out of consciousness and hold onto our seats for dear life while she swerved through traffic. It made us all wish there were seatbelts on the bus. We reported her several times before she was finally removed as our bus driver. Relief doesn't begin to describe how we felt when she was finally gone.

It was that bad.

It's probably one of the reasons I'm a HUGE backseat driver today. Her scary driving traumatized me a bit...

Brumley Law Firm and 1Point21 Interactive rank Texas as the number one state for fatal school bus crashes based on crashes they examined between 2013 and 2022. In that time frame, 1,082 people were killed in 976 school bus crashes across the United States. 75 of those fatal crashes took place in Texas and resulted in 87 fatalities. The highest number of deadly school bus crashes in Texas happened in Harris County at 11.

We make a lot of jokes about bad drivers in Texas, but bad school bus drivers here are a larger problem than most of us realize.

Do you think Texas school bus drivers should be better vetted before jumping behind the wheel with your bundle of joy? What's the solution to this problem? Tell me what you think! Drop me a comment below this article and feel free to email me at Chrissy.Covington@townsquaremedia.com if you have a bad Texas bus driver story you'd like to share.

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