The driver gets one but the kids don't have any.
2007-04-07 08:45:17 · 11 answers · asked by Wiguy 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
School busses are one of the safest modes of transport WITHOUT seatbelts. The rules of the road favor them over just about everything except emergency vehicles. They have multiple visibility devices, and they are rarely if ever driven fast. They are big enough that very few vehicles can actually threaten the occupants in a collision.
Strobes, slow and stop lights, stop signs, drivers have CDLs, and in many cases years of experience, automatic tire chains...and the seat backs are usually padded. They're going to be pretty safe with or without seatbelts. And since the driver is the only one who can be slammed into the steering wheel, or through the windshield, they're the only ones who NEED a seat belt.
The worst thing that could happen to a school bus would be to get hit by a train, or to somehow burn completely. Evacuating a car is trivial. Evacuating a school bus is not, and seat belts would only slow it further.
Why don't school busses have seatbelts? They don't need them. They're among the safest modes of transport available (something like 75 times safer than driving a car, IIRC), the only things that come close are high speed rail and air travel.
2007-04-08 02:24:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because there's no profit in kids? Only kidding! Perhaps the reason is that who would take the time to actually ensure that all the kids are buckled in? And who would be there to unbuckle them in the event of an accident or fire? I'm sure kindergarteners, or even first and second graders wouldn't know how to buckle and/or unbuckle their seatbelts. Would you want your six, seven or eight year old child to be strapped in while a schoolbus catches fire? I don't think so ....
2007-04-07 08:56:26 · answer #2 · answered by Kiffin # 1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of school buses don't have seatbels because they think that they are safe and the driver's get one because the are in the front driving and if theres an accident he won't end up fliying out the front class.
2007-04-07 10:25:10 · answer #3 · answered by mariafernanda 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tens of millions and tens of millions of miles of school Buss commute and no serious harm's and deaths. quite often do to how extreme the chassis is interior the buss and the low speeds traveled. In a crash maximum vehicles get lodged under the physique of the buss and effect does not flow to provide up/exchange the buss action. So bypass forward upload belts 3 throughout the time of seating the two factors could get replaced with 2 the two factors and why no longer shoulder harnesses and padded seat backs or protecting air bags. costs immediately boost into the billions to retrofit and legislate the protection. next element have you ever considered something government do this grew to become out as planned?
2016-10-21 07:13:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Must be a rural area, then. Many urban schools are going to restraint systems in their buses, and upgrading older buses. Depends on whether your school system can afford the retro-fit. I haven't looked into any buses in my area recently, though, so can't tell whether or not they have restraint systems. But they do exist.
2007-04-07 10:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The School board said they couldn't afford to install them in all the buses. There may be other reasons, but that was the excuse they used in Jefferson County, KY.
2007-04-07 11:04:50 · answer #6 · answered by Fordman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most buses couldn't afford to have them put in and would not want to be trapped in a hot bus with little oxygen while the bus is burning down the thought of this is enough for buses to be thought of as death traps
2007-04-07 10:14:32 · answer #7 · answered by kevin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess it depends on where you live. Where I am in NY our buses do have seat belts for the kids.
2007-04-07 09:06:07 · answer #8 · answered by alk99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many times per day does this question get asked?
I would suggest asking your congressman rather than relying on YA to find out the true answer to this
2007-04-07 09:55:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
saw somthing on Tv about that somthing about the seat belts actuly makes it more likely for a studint to get injured. becase their head snaps back and they get wip lash. so it actuly beter for them to be throw out of their seat to a point in stead of being held inplace. but cars are diffrint so buckel up. i now how seat belt can save your life bein in a rollover accideint
2007-04-07 18:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by crazzy /psycho 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋