Why is it different to not have a seatbelt on in a bus like it is in a car?

Question

its just something thats been bugging me can a cop or a lawyer or someone smarter then me answer this for me
I dont just mean City buses i mean school buses tour buses and even the occasional R.V. please help

Answer 1

A bus is a large space inside. A car has you pretty-much custom-fitted into its interior. Most vehicles aren't big enough to even give a bus a jolt.

Since you are thrown INTO the area where you are hit from, the seat belt attempts to keep you away from the point of impact. Within a bus, there is so much open space that the chances are you won't come anywhere close to the point of impact, unless of course it's a side-collision and you are sitting right there.

Answer 2

Because they would cost too much money.

Unfortunately a seat belt on a bus would be a lap built, like on airliners, which do nothing but kill!

Seat belts also kill a lot of people. I have personally seen it.

Usually what happens is the lower belt rises above your pelvic bone and when it does, you get things like lacerated livers, kidneys and duodenum's! The later is the worst death because you die of septicemia as you were leaking feces in to your abdomen. You start spiking temps of 106, 107 and usually you end up bleeding out! Those temps fry your brain!

The shoulder belt also has had it's share of crushed larynx's, so you can't breathe.

Sometimes the impact, I should say often, your seat is seared off its bolts and continues going forward, but your seat belt doesn't. You can imagine what happens to a persons body then

Try getting out of a car upside down or in the water in a seat belt!

I am not saying they don't save lives, but they also cost them!

Answer 3

Reality has proven that IF a bus is involved in an accident, you are more likely to have people trapped in a flaming bus than you are likely to have people thrown about the inside of the bus. Those things move so slow, and are so heavy, that they don't really crash and if they do, they don't turn over. Things crash into them, and those things burst into flames. People need to be able to get out quickly.

Answer 4

It is not different. The driver (in the front seat) must wear one. People in the back seat(s) do not have to wear them.

Although, I'm curious about the minors.

Answer 5

I agree with you!
Especially on school buses.

Answer 6

I'd like to know that myself.

Answer 7

if its a public thing, then it is for safety (fire hazard, etc) otherwise i dont know