" FATAL STOP! " 1970s SCHOOL BUS DRIVER SAFETY INSPECTION & ACCIDENT AVOIDANCE TRAINING FILM 67434
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This 1970s instructional film for school bus drivers, "Fatal Stop", covers the potential dangers that could come about from a sloppy inspection of the bus before driving it somewhere. It shows bus drivers correctly inspecting their bus as well as one bus driver who does his work badly. This bus driver then causes a crash, which is meant to highlight that it was entirely avoidable had he done his inspection correctly.
0:28 Title “Fatal Stop!”, 0:31 Older bald man walks into an office, 0:57 a tire on a school bus that is damaged, 1:06 Bus driver opens the hood of the bus and inspects the engine, 1:33 Bus driver gets behind the wheel and goes through a check sheet to inspect the bus before its trip, 2:31 Driver does an outside inspect of the school bus, 3:13 Football team and cheerleaders get on the bus, 3:44 Different shots of people talking inside the bus, 4:14 Woman does a much more thorough inspection on a school bus, 5:09 School Bus driving slowly down a road, 5:27 Bus driver driving in rain with broken windshield wipers, 5:57 post accident scene between a bus and a car with a police officer taking down some details, 6:17 Bus driver not wearing a seatbelt and being thrown in the stepwell while swerving, 6:44 Different scenes of vandalism on buses such as graffiti, sugar in the gas tank, or misuse of a fire extinguisher, 7:52 legs poking out under the wheel of a bus to symbolize a child being run over, 8:35 Bus arrives at the football game and the team gets off, 9:13 Bus driver begins securing the bus but in a sloppy manner, 9:32 different bus drivers performing thorough pre trip inspections such as checking the engine, mirrors, emergency exits, gages, turn signals, and tires, 10:54 Mechanics driving a faulty bus trying to figure out what is wrong with it, 11:42 different bus drivers talking to the camera while standing in front of their buses or sitting in them, 14:10 Bus driver welcomes the celebrating football team back on the team and forgets to do an inspection, 15:26 the faulty bus tire pops and the bus hits a crash barrier, 16:06 Bus driver opens his reflector box to find it empty, 16:26 Large truck turns around the corner and hits the bus which turns over, 16:50 Bleeding football team players climbing out of the bus, 17:43 Credits begin rolling with a picture of the turned over bus and several students lying in front of it in the background.
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I was a school bus driver for several years, and you check EVERYTHING, and sign a logbook, before you leave your parking space. So even if you're in the parking lot(compound with other buses, or your own driveway, you can be stopped by the DOT, and go through the entire circle check again, with them over your shoulder. It's IMPERATIVE that it's done. You are considered a professional and that demands that if you screw up, you're dealt with accordingly. But that was 30 years ago and I don't know what has changed since.
A little complacency is a grave threat to safety.
Even though he didn't have reflectors or flares, he should have turned on all of the lights (hazards, stop lights, etc.) to get the bus as visible as possible.
On a side note, at 12:14, they start using music from the 1968 horror movie "Night of the Living Dead".
I used to do pre trip inspections on my refrigerated box van...until I realised that the company I worked for _didn't give a stuff about anything I reported._
"The Bus Company"
Love all of these vintage safety videos. Thank you for sharing!
Looks like the era when I was a kid riding the school bus. We were little monsters who did our best to give our bus drivers a nervous breakdown! Some in turn really laid down the law and kept us practically in lockdown on the bus.
P. S. That club they hit the tires with is called a tire thumper. With a little practice a bus or truck driver can use it to quickly tell by the sound if a tire’s air pressure is roughly where it should be. It’s also probably not a coincidence that it can be used as a weapon!
Yes, I don't know what's wrong but everyone in this area seems deaf!
I carry a tire thumper as my work pickup uses higher pressure tires for towing. My TPMS will give me pressure, but I don't rely on it. Plus, a dangerously bad tire doesn't (usually) ring the same, although that's a structural thing, not inflation
Too much emphasis on schedules, not enough on safety. A tragedy could have been prevented.
1:33 Holy cow that Blue Bird was an automatic transmission bus. That was rare back in 1977.
All buses today have automatic transmissions.
@@bobbyheffley4955 hes talking about 1977 though
@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 back then, manual transmissions were the norm
In middle school/high school, the kids on my bus were hellions. When we got to loud, the bus driver would pull over, change the radio station from local rock station to the classical music station, blast it and we got the hint to sit down and shut up.
That is, if you had a radio. If there was a radio on the bus, an affluent student would bring it(I had brought one because I liked rally music).
12:54 Patrick Swayze looked pretty young here.
This was right after the surgery to separate him and his brother. Yes, Patrick started life as a Siamese Twin. More accurately, an American-Irish, Siamese Twin. (His brother's name was Pratt.)
Part of the blame could be on the bus driver and part of the blame could be on the coach and school staff and bus supervisor for rushing him
Today, schools subcontracts to companies who do nothing but provide student transportation.
7:49. That's how those buses were back in the 1970s. Sticks. Four or five speeds. Probably had to double clutch. Today's school bus drivers probably wouldn't make it out of the parking spaces with a bus like that. 7:12: The old parking brakes were on the floor next to the shifter. That's going all the way back.
In my countrie Germany the kids use Public transportation, thats pretty common in comparsion to the USA and our bus dont have seatbelts but our roads and infrastructure are pretty Safe.
7:26 I just have to say, back then or today, this is NOT A PRANK. It is attempted mass murder, a majority of whom are children!! I hope no one ever has to die from something so horrible😢
These were blood and Gut's of safety film's😳
Seat belts on a bigger bus should have time considerations, making sure the passengers are secured.
I was on a bus years ago, and the brakes went out, the driver stopped the bus by going into a nearby cornfield, no one was hurt or injured, and the bus never tipped over, everyone returned home okay, It was later determined that a brake line had blown.
I wonder if, then or now, driver's schedules actually included the time required for these extensive checks? I'm dubious...
This is very scary when you don't do your job to make sure your bus is in good working order. If you don't take care of your equipment, your students may get pretty provoked with you.
They should be checking the School Bus Driver(s) instead.
#Arson #DomesticTerrorism, #Assault, #Drugs #Hatecrimes ... ah sh*t; the list goes on and on and on.
The whole governmental institution...
No matter the decade, most school bus drivers look like the last people you'd want to be alone with children.
12:29 John Denver?!?! :D
Next week the game won’t even matter. But this crash will.
Is that Keith Morrison narrating?
Sounds like Peter Thomas... I am still not sure. 😂
Is this Keith Morrison narrating❓❓❓ sounds like him.....I'm sending this to Bill Hader if I can? 😮
Sounds like Peter Thomas of Forensic Files.
@@danielsmith7023 maybe 🤔 a young Keith Morrison sounded like Peter Thomas? 😁
I thought the same! 🤯
Definitely sounds like Keith Morrison. "Dateline - School Bus Secrets Uncovered!" 🤣
@@jamicl2580 that sounds nothing like Keith Morrison.
@@jamicl2580 👍😂
Is that bus driver still alive