On August 28, 1987, a 1982 school bus carrying 21 passengers was traveling westbound on Levy County (Florida) Road C-32 when, it collided with a two-axle flatbed truck traveling northbound on Levy County Road C-331 near Bronson, Florida. The school bus driver and 5 passengers died; the truckdriver sustained critical injuries and 16 school bus passengers were injured.
We determined that the probable cause of this accident was the truckdriver’s failure, for undetermined reasons, to stop his vehicle at the stop sign. Contributing to the severity of this accident was the loss of structural integrity of the school bus due to the collapse of the school bus floor.
We made recommendations to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and to the State of Florida.
