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I would have said cost and the ability to control kids into using them.
I cannot believe that it is safer to not wear them ... goes against the rest of the worlds opinion.
How would not wearing them help? The risk of being thrown forward into something (or someone) more than outweighs any perceived difficulty in escaping nonsense.
Sounds like a story spread about to prevent a call for them to be retrofitted.
ADDITIONAL AFTER READING SOME OTHER POSTS
It hadn't even occurred to me that the suggestion was lap seat belts ... is a 3 point seat belt too much to ask for a child's safety? The lap belt is 60s technology - how could anyone possibly argue only for lap belts other than financially. |
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popbubble
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We pay a lot of lip service about wanting our children safe in this society. Yet we,apparently arn't willing to pay the price to put seatbelts in buses. |
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Smudgeward
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Kids are a dime a dozen. |
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BaFfler
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More dangerous than no seat belts. |
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EDENSILK
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I don't know why, but i think it is a load of BS! I don't let my son take the school bus, I don't think that it is safe at all. In 1999 my 11 year-old cousin tragically died in a school bus accident. Sandreen's gift began in honour of her. Her organs were donated by the family, and as a result six people’s lives (including those of three children) were either saved or greatly enhanced http://www.sandrinesgift.com. I think that seat belt laws around the world need to be changed... and soon! I wouldn't want this to happen again to anyone else. |
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*Angel_Eyez*
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I guess they think that they are too expensive... |
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I ♥ Evil
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children have flexible bones and will simply bounce around inside without any major damage. seat belts are for the weak. unbuckle your safety belt and take it like a man! |
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Dreamlander
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The National Transportation Safety Board decided against recommending seat belts in school buses after reviewing a report showing they can sometimes increase injuries to children.
Instead, the board recommended that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration expand standards aimed at keeping children contained in the seating area.
The safety board wants the current standards, which say children should be protected in a cocoon of padded seats and high seat backs, expanded so that children will be kept inside the bus in the event of a side collision or a roll-over. |
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Shadow
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I AGREE WITH A PRIOR ANSWER YOU RECIEVED AND I REALLY DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU BUT I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS THE BEST QUESTION I HAVE READ ALL DAY BY FAR THE MOST LOGICAL ONE TOO. IN PARTS OF KENTUCKY WE HAVE SEAT BELTS ON OUR PRESCHOOL BUSES. THEY ARE A 5 POINT HARNESS. |
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sorrells316
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easier to get out of bus after a collision |
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jareihart
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because then they would launch a campaign to put seat belts on school chairs. oh, thats right, you can't do that to control a classroom, seriously,have you ever seen a bus load of kid up close? wake up!!! duh |
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marissa_pyp
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A 1999 study by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) suggests that adding seat belts to school buses will cause additional head injuries and probably additional deaths in some crashes. It says school buses built since 1977 rely for safety not on seat-belts but on the close spacing of seats with padded seat backs, called compartmentalization. Seat-belts, by holding a child's pelvis firmly in place, allowed the torso to crack like a whip, with the head striking a seat back or a hard object with greater force than if the whole body has been thrown. The NTSB found the evidence ambiguous enough to avoid recommending seat belts, but was also not persuaded to endorse taking them out.
Some US states require seat-belts on school buses. However, none of them, fortunately, has experienced a crash that would demonstrate any benefits of adding seat-belts to school buses. There is still no scientific evidence that lives would be saved. |
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TOM
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because the frames are so much stronger and if you get into
and if you get into a collision and get knocked out the bus driver can't undo 70 seatbelts |
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king_davis13
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the new school busses do have seat belts. eventually they all will. school busses are also generally slow moving and so heavy that whatever they hit does not bring them to a sudden stop so the impact is not transferred to the passengers as much |
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kathy059
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Studies have shown children are safer without them.
I honestly don't know how many busloads of school children they crashed to test this out, but somehow, they know. |
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dutchking876
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there are no seat belts in buses because they are a large transporting vehicle and they rarely have accidents |
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