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Fight On School Bus Was Not Foreseeable and Could Not Have Been Prevented

The Second Department determined that the duty to supervise students on a school bus is identical to the duty to supervise students in school.  Here infant plaintiff was injured on the bus when punched by another student.  The bus driver did not see the incident and neither the infant plaintiff nor the assailant had been involved in or witnessed any other fights on the school bus. The court held that brief incident was not foreseeable and could not have been prevented:

Like a school, a school bus company has a duty to adequately supervise children in its care, and to exercise the same degree of care toward them as would a reasonably prudent parent under similar circumstances … . However, schools and school bus companies are not insurers of their students' safety; rather, for liability to result, they must have notice of the specific dangerous conduct so as to render the injury foreseeable, as well as a reasonable opportunity to prevent it … .

Here, the bus defendants established their prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that they had no notice of any violent propensities or disciplinary problems on the part of the assailant. Rather, the assailant's act of punching the infant was sudden and unforeseeable, and any lack of supervision was not a proximate cause of the infant's alleged injuries … . Braun v Longwood Jr High School, 2014 NY Slip Op 08595, 2nd Dept 12-10-14

 

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