Gardian Angel, LLC

02/10/2026

NHTSA has said it for years: the most dangerous part of a school bus trip is getting on and off the bus.

Illegal passing is still putting students at risk and it’s time we stop pretending interior solutions fix an exterior problem.

👉 Read our latest analysis:

For more than a decade, the school transportation industry has revisited familiar safety debates with remarkable consistency. Seat belts. Cameras. Monitoring. Compliance. Training.Federal agencies have spoken. Conferences have convened. Working groups have issued findings. Tragic incidents have prom...

02/09/2026

This shouldn’t need repeating, but it does.

Winter mornings are dark. Weather is unpredictable. Kids are smaller, faster, and harder to see than we like to admit.

🛑 When a school bus has its red lights on, stopping is how children make it home safely.

This isn’t about impatience.
It’s not about being late.
It’s about a child stepping off a bus and trusting that adults are paying attention.

Thank you for continuing to say this out loud because it matters every single day.

Please slow down. Please stop. Please share.

🛑✋🚸

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Kids are harder to see in winter’s dark and often inclement conditions. ❄️🧊

Slow down ⬇️ and look around. 👁️ When a school bus activates its red lights, make sure to STOP. ✋🛑

02/03/2026

February is Love the Bus Month 🚌❤️

Behind every safe ride to school is a driver who cares, a team that stays alert, and professionals who don’t cut corners when it comes to kids.

To the school bus drivers, monitors, mechanics, and transportation staff across the country
thank you for protecting what matters most, every single day.

We see you. And we appreciate you.

February is Love the Bus Month! 🚌❤️

We're celebrating hard-working bus crews across the country focused on SAFE, secure transportation EVERY day, for EVERY child.

01/29/2026

Poll: What’s the biggest visibility hazard at your child’s bus stop?

🚗 Parked cars
🌳 Trees/shadows
👕 Dark clothing

Drop your choice in the comments!

01/28/2026

Everyone talks about signs and stop arms, but think like a parent: A child walking in poorly lit areas is the real risk. Vendors sell solutions for the bus, but what about the danger zone around it?

01/27/2026

Quick tip: Teach kids to make eye contact with the bus driver before stepping onto the bus. Visibility is two-way, not just them being seen.

01/26/2026

Brightly colored winter jackets, reflective hats, and clip-on lights improve pedestrian recognition at school bus stops more than any single sign on the bus itself.

01/24/2026

If a vehicle can’t stop for a school bus, nothing else it does matters.

The NTSB has opened its first-ever investigation into Waymo after self-driving vehicles were repeatedly caught passing stopped school buses in Austin , even after a software recall that was supposed to fix the problem.

School bus laws exist to protect kids in the most vulnerable moment of their day: getting on and off the bus. “No collisions so far” isn’t reassuring to parents. It’s a reminder of how close things can come.

What’s often overlooked is that federal safety investigators have already identified increased school bus visibility and enhanced lighting as proven ways to reduce stop-arm violations. Systems like Gardian Angel were created for exactly this reason to make school buses and even more importantly they children impossible to miss, whether the driver is human or automated.

Safety isn’t about reacting after something goes wrong.
It’s about making sure it never does.

01/22/2026

Quick poll! How early should kids arrive at the bus stop for safety during winter mornings?
⏰ 5 minutes before
⏰ 10 minutes before
⏰ 15 minutes before

Tell us what you think!

01/21/2026

Most safety products focus on the bus, but the real question is—can drivers see the students? If kids are wearing dark clothes or standing in shadowy areas, even the newest bus signage won’t make them visible. At Gardian Angel, we ask: are the children seen?

01/21/2026

Sixteen years ago today, everything changed.

It was a bitterly cold January morning when a 15-year-old student crossed the street to get on her school bus in Sylvania, Ohio. She never made it. A distracted driver struck her at nearly 50 mph.

Sadly, it wasn’t the first time, and it wouldn’t be the last that a child was killed in the dark while trying to board a school bus. That’s what haunted me the most. Kids were being hit far more often in low light than in daylight. The reason was painfully simple: during the day, they can be seen. In the dark, they often can’t.

That night, I put pen to paper and began designing what would become the Gardian Angel. Not for recognition. Not for business. But because that student’s death couldn’t be for nothing.

Today, she would be almost 31 years old. Maybe walking her own kids to the bus stop. Instead, her light was taken far too soon because of another person’s carelessness.

But her light didn’t disappear.

Because of her, hundreds of thousands of children across the country are now seen in the dark. And in 15 years of use, not one child has been struck, injured, or killed in darkness on a bus equipped with the Gardian Angel School Bus Lighting System.

Desmond Tutu said it best:
“Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all of the darkness.”

Her light still shines. And it’s protecting children every morning.

This pedestrian school bus safety light prevents school bus accidents including the issue of pedestrians hit by cars illegally passing the school bus and ill...

01/20/2026

Quick tip: Make sure your child’s backpack has reflective strips or clip-on lights. Even a few extra seconds of visibility in low light can prevent a tragedy.