Posted on 11/22/2016 1:12:41 PM PST by Morgana
The graduates are wrecks after HS.
I took a lot of bus trips as a HS baseball coach in SoCal. It still seemed the nature of things here that the drivers were always in their forties and had been very heavily vetted.
“Johnthony Walker, 24”
I want to know whyTF some young kid was allowed to drive a school bus at all?
I used to drive a school bus... 60, 70, sometimes 80 kids under 12. You do not want to have to go around undoing seatbelts on 5, 6, 7, or 8 years olds who are panicking should the bus catch fire or you get stuck on a railroad track.
I used to drive a school bus... 60, 70, sometimes 80 kids under 12. You do not want to have to go around undoing seatbelts on 5, 6, 7, or 8 years olds who are panicking should the bus catch fire or you get stuck on a railroad track.
I used to drive a school bus... 60, 70, sometimes 80 kids under 12. You do not want to have to go around undoing seatbelts on 5, 6, 7, or 8 years olds who are panicking should the bus catch fire or you get stuck on a railroad track.
For info on that company, see my links in this thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3497241/posts
I wonder what the driver’s religious background is.
Meth probably..maybe crack too
Okay, NOW it's time to look into his affiliations.
Why do we have fools with reddened eyes (a sure sign of pot-smoking) driving buses?!
Yes. The witnesses' statements of what the driver said indicates intent.
So who is responsible for unbuckling all the kindergarteners’ seat belts in the event of a fire?
A 60 passenger vehicle which can potentially be filled with people unable to unbuckle themselves is more dangerous with seat belts than without.
The question is: how often do school bus wrecks happen, and in those wrecks, what causes most of the injuries/fatalities? If fire is the culprit, then maybe they do not need to be buckled in. Most of the fatalities I hear about in school bus wrecks are due to injuries sustained because the kids were not buckled in, such as the one that just occurred.
Whatever you say.
The worm got the job because he enjoys protective pigmentation.
I say that was such a weak reply you would have done better to say nothing at all.
Okay.
Nothing at all.
That is indeed the argument. It is reviewed regularly. I will leave it up to the safety engineers to make the call. The soccer moms will always opt for what would have been desirable in the last accident, but that's not a good way to make policy.
Busses are considered inherently safe because of their size, weight, and large crumple zones. A head-on collision with a tractor-trailer or getting T-boned by a train or sailing off a mountain cliff will be bad in any vehicle, with or without seatbelts, but busses tend to be forgiving in most accidents. Getting out quickly in the event of fire is important.
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