CBS News - Sixteen-year-old Ashley Brown's life ended on the way to a high school soccer game, when the bus she was riding in crashed.

Her father Brad Brown believes a seat belt would have saved her.

 

 

NHTSA pushes for seat belts on school buses

This debate has been going on for decades.

I have never understood why not wearing seat belts is illegal in most, if not all states, but kids on school buses don't even have the option to wear one. How can that be???

I've never understood why seat belts are mandatory on personal and work vehicles but not on school busses.

I have never understood why not wearing seat belts is illegal in most, if not all states, but kids on school buses don't even have the option to wear one. How can that be???

 

Something to do with the distance between the seats I think.

 

Still doesn't make sense to me though.

NEA - Seat Belts, School Buses and Safety

It's more about the age and number of students. If there was a true emergency, you would not be able to help the youngest students evacuate the bus quick enough if they are belted in. Today's buses are built so the higher seat backs and closer seats form a padded cocoon around the student. The buses are safer, but no vehicle is perfect.

It's more about the age and number of students. If there was a true emergency, you would not be able to help the youngest students evacuate the bus quick enough if they are belted in. Today's buses are built so the higher seat backs and closer seats form a padded cocoon around the student. The buses are safer, but no vehicle is perfect.

 

That is interesting..never thought about it that way.

They (politicians) can just mandate it and give no funding or assistance of any kind - like they do everything else in education.

Followed a school bus up AA highway young kids where running up and down the aisle playing. That’s on the driver.

It's more about the age and number of students. If there was a true emergency, you would not be able to help the youngest students evacuate the bus quick enough if they are belted in. Today's buses are built so the higher seat backs and closer seats form a padded cocoon around the student. The buses are safer, but no vehicle is perfect.

 

Until the bus flips over, then everyone is screwed.

However, the federal Head Start program requires belts...

 

Not so, for the state funded buses used for daily transportation.

 

A little bit of an inconsistency.

Followed a school bus up AA highway young kids where running up and down the aisle playing. That’s on the driver.

 

Absolutely on the driver. I wonder if they had a monitor. Usually they sit right behind the driver so they can talk. Like that is controlling behavior! :ohbrother: