“School buses,” as we think of them, did not start until the 1920s. However, before that communities would borrow horse-drawn carts from local farms to transport all the children in that area to school. When the car was invented and popularized, this became the preferred school transportation. As with most new inventions, accidents happen, and school buses were not spared.

In 1939, state officials called a halt to school buses until safety standards could be developed to protect the American school children who relied on bus services. Representatives from all over the country met to help ratify a new code of safety for the nation’s school buses.