1998 Blue Bird School Bus

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body › door. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Structure › Body › Door3
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Structure › Body › Door
Filed Dec 12, 2001OH

SCHOOL BUS DID NOT PASS SUMMER INSPECTION DUE TO EMERGENCY WINDOW EXIT ON DRIVERS SIDE, SIDE ARM WAS TOO MUCH BELOW THE WINDOW, AND A CHILD COULD CUT OR SERIOUSLY BE INJURED UPON BEING LIFTED DOWN. *AK *YD

Structure › Body › Door
Filed Dec 12, 2001OH

SCHOOL BUS DID NOT PASS SUMMER INSPECTION DUE TO EMERGENCY WINDOW EXIT ON DRIVERS SIDE. SIDE ARM WAS TOO BELOW WINDOW, AND A CHILD COULD CUT OR SERIOUSLY BE INJURED UPON BEING LIFTED DOWN.*AK *YD

Structure › Body › Door
Filed Dec 12, 2001OH

SCHOOL BUS DID NOT PASS SUMMER INSPECTION DUE TO EMERGENCY WINDOW EXIT ON DRIVER'S SIDE. SIDE ARM WAS TOO BELOW WINDOW, AND A CHILD COUD CUT OR SERIOUSLY BE INJURED UPON BEING LIFTED DOWN.*AK *YD

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1996
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20090100Routine
20012000Routine
20003010Routine
1998 — this page3000Routine
19973001Fatalities reported
19967000Routine
19954000Routine
19934010Routine
19921000Routine
19911000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.