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To the parent's point. Buses are safer for the occupants because they are heavier. But they are more dangerous to the smaller vehicles occupants.

I suppose they don't tend to go into high speed highways.

There are also fewer buses needed to carry the same number of people, and they are operated by professional (and hopefully less distracted!) drivers.

I'm not sure a good data source, but I'd expect that the serious injury rate per person-mile of buses is much lower than that of private cars.

I don't have serious injury, but deaths per 100m passenger miles is 1/10th to 1/20th the rate for private passenger vehicles.

Rail is 1/2 the bus fatality rate.

It is funny how our bubbles shape our views. I've never been on a bus that didn't have highway speeds as part of its regular route.