How Colorado Crash Changed How School Buses Are Made

By Rick Sallinger
DENVER (CBS4) – It was 1971 when brake failure led to a school bus crash on Monarch Pass killing eight students and a coach from the Gunnison High School junior varsity football team. That led to what’s called the Colorado rack and load test.
Jennifer Okes, the executive director of school finance with the Colorado Department of Education, says it’s critical.
“School buses made and sold in Colorado have an extra safety to insure that the frame of the sch