Seems pretty backward to me. Ticket individuals for not wearing seatbelts when our future rides around in metal deathtraps with no seatbelts at all.
2006-07-12 11:48:09 · 20 answers · asked by bekewayne 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
A school bus is designed for safety without the use of a seat belt. Each child, when sitting in a a seat is sitting in what the safety designers call the safety cube. Each seat in front of the child is designed to give way when an excessive amount of force is applied to the back of the bus seat. The breaking away of the seat in front of the child absorbs the impact of the child in the seat behind, minimizing the damage done to the occupant. There are also numerous side impact beams and rear impact panels installed on a school bus that you never see in action as a school bus is one of the safest modes of ground transportation. If a bus is ever T-Boned, the bus would hardly even move as the side impact beams would absorb more tha 75% of the impact. If a child was wearing a seat belt is this type of design, the chances that the belt would do more damage to them than the actual collision would be tremendous. Cars are not designed in this fashion and are quite smaller in mass, so the option to wear seat belts in automobiles is quite a different comparison than on a bus.
2006-07-15 14:02:44 · answer #1 · answered by Steven K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom was a school bus driver and she said there were a few reasons why school buses don't have seat belts. The first reason is that if something serious happened to the bus (i.e. catch fire, roll off a cliff) it would be difficult to assist that many kids with their seat belts if they were not capable of moving or undoing it themselves. The other reason is that like someone else mentioned, kids would just unfasten them. Then the bus driver would now have to focus their attention on seeing if the kids have their seatbelts on...another distraction for the bus driver. Personally, I think both seem a little bogus and I suspect the real reason is that school districts that are already strapped for cash do not want to have to dowel out thousands on updating their buses with seat belts then training the drivers on how to evacuate in an emergency situation. I always think it terms of the bottom line and this is what my gut is telling me is the REAL reason.
2006-07-12 11:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because School busses take long enough to get moving anyways! If the drivers had to find a way to stop from their already annoyingly slow progress for every kid who removed their seatbelt, that combined with the fact that they stop traffic anyways every two seconds even if the kid they are letting off is on the same side of the road... no one would ever get anywhere!
I say just put some sort of ejection system into the busses that shoots the kids out of the roof so they can save everyone a little greif.
2006-07-12 11:54:02 · answer #3 · answered by korn_issues_29 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the seat belt law is not about safety. Think of it like this. If I don't wear a seat belt, I am the only person I am putting in danger. Not wearing a seat belt does not affect your ability to drive.
The seat belt law was made so police could pull over anyone under the "I thought he wasn't wearing a seat belt." clause.
An interesting side effect is that it is legal to have a drug dog sniff on a routine traffic stop. And I believe in some states it is legal to search the car. Without a warrant.
It's a way for them to pull over someone who as far as they can tell is not breaking any law.
It's about being able to have more power over the citizens.
2006-07-12 12:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by cat_Rett_98 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered about that also. Maybe they don't want to go through the cost of installing seatbelts. But it's the public that would be paying for it. I'm sure they'd vote yes to a raise though.
2006-07-12 11:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by windandwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The regulation states that if a motor vehicle is equipped with seatbelts that they should be worn in any respect situations. you should work out if the bus your toddler rides in is equiped with seatbelts, then you truthfully can cause them to positioned on them. i imagine in the experience that they didnt have them is because college buses are typicaly sluggish transferring autos and they weigh a buttload. so if the did have an coincidence the bus should be superb and there wouldnt be adequate stress to propel a baby out of their seat.... both that or it will be too troublesome to implement, each stop you should analyze the little ones to work out if their wearing them.
2016-11-01 22:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a dame good question and is very true!! how can we ask that question to who ever invented the seatbelt rule,cause not only school buses ,but the bus,old people get on ,kids ex,and dont nned a seat belt so why we have to,lol
2006-07-12 11:52:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to take the buss and my bus driver told me it's because it's safer. Apparentlt the seats in a bus aren't installed as good as a car seat and if the accident was serious the bus seats would probably just rip off the floor anyways. But I still wonder, why don't they make better bus seats or install them better?
2006-07-12 11:52:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to get a bus load of unruly 3rd graders to keep their seatbelts on.
Most have knives and can cut the belts anyways.
2006-07-12 11:50:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep u r completely right on that! I always took my son to school cuz of that fact! But they dont get fined for that and so many kids could get hurt but BY GOD let a cop pull u over in your car and SLAM theres a ticket! Doesnt make any sense I agree
2006-07-12 12:03:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋