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flag Maine allocates $4.3M to upgrade school bus safety after two child deaths in 2025.

flag Maine Governor Janet Mills has unveiled a $4.3 million plan to improve school bus safety after two child fatalities in late 2025, including 12-year-old Brayden Callahan in Rockland and 5-year-old Simon Gonzalez in Standish. flag The funding, proposed in the state’s supplemental budget, will retrofit nearly 1,700 buses with crossing arms and anti-pinch door sensors. flag Mills also created the Maine School Transportation Safety Commission, which includes state and local representatives, to review safety regulations and deliver recommendations by April 30, 2026. flag The NTSB preliminary report cited driver inattention in Callahan’s death, with the bus driver charged with manslaughter. flag These incidents are rare in Maine, where only five school bus-related child fatalities occurred in the past 55 years.

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