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How come as parents we don't worry as much about our kids taking the bus?
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Bus ConstructionIn an accident involving a school bus, most fatalities and injuries occur outside of the bus. The construction of a typical school bus creates a safer passenger environment than that of a car or lighter vehicle. The impact of a crash is weaker because buses are heavier. This force is distributed differently along a bus. Buses have a body-on-frame design. This greatly differs from lighter vehicles, and provides impact protection not found elsewhere.
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A bus' interior also differs from a car. The use of closely spaced seats that have padded backs -- a design called compartmentalization -- creates an enclosed environment for passengers in the absence of seat belts.
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Studies of Safety
Numerous studies examining the effectiveness of different belt types and seating arrangements came to the same conclusion: seatbelts on a bus have more drawbacks than advantages.
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Neither lap nor lap-and-shoulder belts on a bus provide the same type of protection offered in a car. During a head-on collision, the most common type for belts, lap belts, increase the risk of injury. On impact, this type of restraint allows a passenger's head to jerk forward, risking severe head and neck injury. Lap and shoulder belts would require the installation of stiffer seats. These seats could become a source of impact injury. Studies also showed that children slip downwards when restrained by lap and shoulder belts, risking injury to vulnerable internal organs.
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In 1999, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) examined the effect of seat belt installation in buses. They came to the conclusion that seat belts actually would result in head injuries and fatalities. In fact, the NTSB found a relationship between most injuries/deaths and the seating position of the passenger. In these cases, the presence of seat belts would change nothing.
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While there is no evidence proving that seat belts on buses save lives, there is reason to worry they may cause harm. During an emergency, seat belts could hinder young children from quickly exiting the bus; they simply could not free themselves. Drivers would be hard pressed to monitor belt usage for every student. And the heavy buckles could be used as weapons.
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Studies by federal agencies, including the NTSB, have shown bus construction provides greater safety than seat belts ever could. Comparing the design of a school bus to a car is like comparing apples to oranges. Where belts protect passengers during car collisions, their presence may cause severe injuries on a bus. Seatbelts are only required on small buses weighing less than 10,000 pounds because their design more closely resembles a car. It is ironic, but the reality is that seat belts have no place on a school bus.
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When I was in school they tested seat belts on school buses for about a week. Kids were beating each other with them like wips and nobody wore them.why does the german motorway (autobahns) have no speed limit?
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Simple answer is money. And the fact that less than 1% of injuries are the direct result of bus accidents. Combine that with the millions it would take to retrofit school buses, and the time it would take to ensure every child was buckled in, and you can bet that it won't happen.Question On how to handle this one situation?
There have been studies that show seat belts on buses are more dangerous than not having them. Without the seat belts children will actually bounce off of the high seat backs. Where if they are buckled in the seats are so close together that when they go forward they break their necks ;-(. Airbags would probably do the same.Traffic tickets are not for safety but revenue, right?
front seats got seatbeltseven if they did have belts we wouldnt wear them
the real reason, too much money try lobbing in dc to get it changed seems like a very worthy cause. but for the bs dc reason they have hugh back seats.
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Here in Australia alot of private bus companies are putting seatbelts in their busses. My son doesnt take a bus to school but whenever his class go on excursions they take private busses which makes me happy to know that my son is safely belted in. But our public transport busses are not required to have seatbelts which is stupid! I think the reason being is because most people are required to stand when no seats are available in order to increase profits for the company! With sooo many school bus accidents it a wonder that governments across the world have not made this a law.how many car accidents are caused by buzzards every year?
in my school district the buses have seat belts. no one wears them though. and they would pro. cause internal damage since they are just the lab belts.More Questions & Answers ...
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