Do you feel nervous about coach trips??

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Do you let your children go on school coach trips?
Do you go on coach trips?
They seem to be very notorious for crashing.
Another school coach trip ended in disaster yesterday?
Sadly one child died.
Does it make you nervous, and what is it about school minibuses and coach trips?😥
AIBU?

Do you have statistics for this? Over car and other accidents

Let’s just say you would not be cut out for a career in risk management OP.

You’re being ridiculous and making false claims, stop it

My DC get a coach to and from school everyday as we live rurally. They also go on several trips throughout the year on a coach.

of course there’s always a niggling worry in the back of my mind when they’re travelling, but no more when they’re travelling by car.

Coach travel is much safer than car travel, and you can’t wrap them up in cotton wool otherwise they’d miss out on so many experiences.

In general I feel that they’re as safe as they can be when travelling on a coach.

Really?

my DC travel by coach to school every day. They’re near the end of secondary/sixth form by now. Not once has there been an accident, not even a prang.

Breakdowns and bad behaviour on the bus - yes. Incidents - no.

Could you please define "quite a bit"?

Isn't it just.

Agree too, it’s in very poor taste.

One incident a term of a coach crashing or leaving the road? What an incredibly, abysmally unlucky coach company. I'm sure many of those crashes, and the resulting absolutely horrific safety record, were reported in the media, so perhaps you can find some links?

You're wrong op. Have a look online and you'll see you are far more likely to have an accident in a car than a coach.

Get a grip OP. Would never cross my mind. Accidents happen everywhere, at any time. You can't stop living your life through unfounded fear.

I’m generally a robust person but this feels quite a grim thread. Yesterday’s tragedy was close to me & it’s hit hard for our community.

Last coach trip I did, a 15 minute loo break on what should have been a two hour journey turned into over an hour because people stopped for coffee, got lost in the gift shop (that was the 'group leader') & I prefer to have more control - so I avoid them for that.
The idea that they are more prone to accidents is batshit - as PPs have suggested they are newsworthy because they happen less often, and unfortunately if children are involved the tabloids go into overdrive.

A bit out of date - but copied from the Guardian

"Department for Transport statistics for 2005, the last year for which figures are available, show that nine bus and coach passengers or drivers were killed out of a total road toll of 3,201. Around 350 more were seriously hurt.

Since 1998, the highest number of people killed on buses and coaches in a single year is 20.
Figures from the National Statistics bureau comparing death rates per distance travelled showed that in 2002, an average of 0.4 bus or coach passengers were killed per 1bn km travelled per person.
This figure compared against a rate of 2.8 for those travelling by car, 29.5 for cyclists and 111.3 for motorcyclists. Only rail was marginally safer, with 0.3 deaths per 1bn km travelled per person."

Don't think the op is looking for ideas for an article
having read their other posts they clearly are just stirring the pot with fanciful nonsense
if I was a journo I'd be offended that anyone this stupid was accused of being the same

Much safer than car travel.

The biggest risk to children on buses/coaches is being hit as a pedestrian when getting on/off eg child tries to cross the road but can't be seen by cars approaching as hidden by the bus/coach.

The recent crash is obviously shocking & devastating to those involved but it remains a very rare incident.

Children are killed on the roads as pedestrians & as car passengers every week & injured every day.

If that were true, it wouldn't make headline news nationally every time.

Do you ever use staircases, OP? You are more likely to have an accident or injury on a staircase but we don't think about it because it doesn't make headline news.

My son gets driven to and from school every day on country roads on a coach. No it doesn’t worry me.

I'm glad someone mentioned this because I must admit, I did laugh at the idea the OP might be doing any kind of research.

What do you get out of talking utter shite and trying to scare people?

I let DS go on them - he went to Gulliver’s World a couple of weeks ago with school. Any accident is tragic, especially if a child is killed but thankfully they are very rare

This was in the 80s - the coach drivers were often drunk, we had to report one to the police for propositioning 11/12 year old girls, and careering off the road in a particular rural area and having to get police help out of ditches was common.

I understand this anxiety as I grew up in Hagley and went to the school opposite the one where they had the absolutely hideous mini bus crash. I always felt a bit nervous when my dc went off in the school mini bus, but equally would never have stopped them going because of my anxiety. It is very rare and cars are more dangerous.