If Seat belt Laws are so gravely Important, then why dont school busses have them for all the kids?

Question

Yet, you or me can get a ticket for not wearing one,,,
It seems like a double standard and another (Its all about the money) money grab law.
Yes, nobody sane would not wear one, but why are they not required in a school bus carrying alot of children too?

Answer 1

True, it has alot to do with money, but it also has to do with control of the population. If you can convince people that the government should control even the most basic decisions of your life, they can manipulate all of your freedoms from you. We all become Sims!

Answer 2

1. There are not many things on the road bigger, excpet for big rigs, so the bus would just push the vehicle out of the way.

2. Not many things to slam yourself against, Most of the walls of the bus are flat surfaces, and the seats are all padded front to back. The windows are too small for someone to get ejected, and there is a padded wall between the first row of seats and the windshield.

3. Enforcing seat belts on children would be hell to manage.

4. School Busses don't get to high enough speeds often to cause a bad wreck, they usualy drive through residential areas and high commuted roads. Before mentioned big rigs usualy stick to interstates and highways.

Answer 3

No, the answer is quite simple. It's not just school buses, it's pretty much all public transportation. The reason is that if a bus collides with a car, it isn't going to flip the bus upside down, break it in half, throw all the kids out the windows, etc. In nearly every bus accident, injuries are very limited because buses are huge tank-like vehicles and it's physically very difficult to damage it the way a car would be damaged.

Meanwhile, someone in a little Tercel getting hit by the bus would be lucky to be alive, seatbelt or not. Cars are smaller, weaker, and more susceptible to huge damage in accidents.

Answer 4

Supposedly, college bus seats are specific padded to be secure in a crash. i'm no longer confident that it is sufficient. after all, whether the college buses had seatbelts, maximum youngsters would not placed on the seat belts, so as that they might not be any safer than with out them. honestly, they could be much less secure, because of the fact some little ones placed the seat belts interior the aisle to make different little ones holiday.

Answer 5

I agree...have thought this myself. I agree with both answers.

I have seen them in busses.
The drivers would probably love them.lol Strap them youngins in!
It would be really expensive, wouldn't it?
"but ..yes it's double standards. Yes.....it is also control to demand that I wear one.It also generates money to fine me.
Take some of the fine money and buy seat belts for busses.

Usually changes aren't made until people die and spot light things.God forbid.
That is usually when changes come about.

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Todd the trafic isn't true of here...they are exposed here.

I think good conciencious drivers have contributed to keeping them safe.Plus the flashing lights and no passing and reflector tapes, etc.

Answer 6

because Government doesn't care about the kids, they care about control and money. If seat belt laws are a primary offense it allows the police one more excuse for intrusion in the personal lives and space of a formerly free people.

Answer 7

Badcock4 and twistedbutright are 1000000% correct.

Nothing more need be said.........

By the way I NEVER wear mine...........
I'm 53 and I always knew that if you hit a brick wall at 80 mph a little strip of nylon ain't gonna do sh*t.................By the way , plunging from a bridge into a lake ...Be sure to strap my a$$ to 4,000 lbs of steel....
Yea...That's for me!

Answer 8

I totally agree with you, i have to travel by train with my baby for doctors appointments i think all public transport should have them.

Answer 9

Because the lobbyist representing manufacturers lined the pockets of the right politicians