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Chesterfield, NJ: When a School Bus and a Dump Truck Meet at a Rural Intersection — and Every Adult in the Chain Failed You put your child on a school bus because it is supposed to be the safest vehicle on the road. That is the promise — the social contract — between a school district, a bus company, and a parent. On February 16, 2012, at the intersection of Bordentown-Chesterfield and Old York Roads in Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, that contract broke at every link in the chain. A school bus carrying 25 children to Chesterfield Elementary School collided with a Mack dump truck hauling construction debris. The bus spun. It hit a traffic pole. A sixth-grader did not come home. Two of her sisters suffered life-threatening injuries. Three other students nearly died. Ten more were hurt. The National Transportation Safety Board spent over a year investigating this crash — and what it found was not a single accident but a stack of failures, each one preventable, each one building on the last. The bus driver was chronically sleep-deprived, taking undisclosed sedative medications, and had obtained his school bus endorsement only one month before the crash. The truck was…