The Road to the Schoolhouse Proves Perilous for India's Young "On the day Japneet Singh died, his father dressed him neatly in his crisp school uniform for picture day at his nursery school," Sruthi Gottipati wrote in The New York Times. Japneet, 4, was crushed beneath the wheels of his school bus as he exited it, she wrote. Experts attribute a large number of fatal school bus accidents in India to "a deadly combination of bad roads, chaotic traffic, poorly enforced safeguards, badly trained bus drivers and a lack of political will to address the problem," Ms. Gottipati wrote.