Blue Bird All American, Blue Bird Vision, model year 2013. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 25 July 2012. 726 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird is recalling model year 2013 All American and Vision school buses manufactured from April 30, 2012, through June 23, 2012. Driver's seat belts may have been inadvertently installed with mismatched buckles which fails to conform to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 209, "Seat Belt …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Blue Bird's own number for this recall: R12VH. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V359 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 12V359 cover?
- Blue Bird All American, Blue Bird Vision, model year 2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird is recalling model year 2013 All American and Vision school buses manufactured from April 30, 2012, through June 23, 2012.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Should this condition occur, the seat occupant may not be properly restrained and could be injured in an accident or sudden stop.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will repair the buses free of charge. The safety recall began on August 23, 2012. Owners may contact Blue Bird at 1-478-822-2242.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Blue Bird calls this recall R12VH, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Should this condition occur, the seat occupant may not be properly restrained and could be injured in an accident or sudden stop.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V359 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | BLUE BIRD BODY COMPANY |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Front:Buckle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 July 2012 |
| Model years | 2013-2013 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD ALL AMERICAN, BLUE BIRD VISION |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Should this condition occur, the seat occupant may not be properly restrained and could be injured in an accident or sudden stop.
The remedy
Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will repair the buses free of charge. The safety recall began on August 23, 2012. Owners may contact Blue Bird at 1-478-822-2242.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V359, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v359/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Blue Bird notices we hold
- 26V556: 2025-2027 Vision school buses equipped with Ricon K-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V520: 2023-2027 Vision Transit Buses
- 26V519: 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses
- 26V467: 2022-2027 Vision transit buses
- 26V466: 2022-2027 Vision school buses
- 26V319: 2027 Vision school buses
- 26V246: 2026-2027 All American school buses
- 26V245: 2026 All American transit buses
All 159 Blue Bird campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 12V359 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
19e4da76 - Consequence
23f3f4c2 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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